Word: wraiths
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned for the old New Deal of NRA. He lambasted "my friend Franklin Roosevelt." From time to time he saw things with an amazingly discerning eye. From time to time he lost himself in strange clouds, wandered, a bitter wraith, among his own uncertainties. He was "Old Ironpants." He had a spell of isolationism. In April 1941, when the President declined to renew his commission as an Army reserve officer, he wrote back lugubriously: "I am sure you don't like me any more...