Word: sweete
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...mortal sweet within...
...plays some old archaic song. His muse is not one of the Goddesses of Poetry; but rather he bows down before the musical one. For him nature is not a sight; it is a sound, and a melodious and harmonious sound it is. At times some echoes of this sweet soft music creep into his verse. At other times he thinks of it but cannot embody it. Indeed he tells us himself...
Strange to say, politicians and political observers regard this expression as entirely sincere. They characterize him as a sweet, if not a naive old man, and many feel sure that he will be the Democratic nominee. It is suggested that at his age even the possibility that he might die in office, if elected, is an added attraction to him as a candidate, just as his lack of enemies is his present asset...
...House the final minutes wore away without controversy. A few minutes before the closing hour, seven p. m., the clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
...sweet, if not a naive...