Thursday, 13 March 2025

Embarrass his Holiness by associating with any Methodists in Rome

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The Vatican advised that Pope Pius X would grant him an audience on the fifth of April, providing that he did not embarrass his Holiness by ...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Preferably diamond trinkets

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“Trinkets,” Alice said, when asked if she was still short of anything. “Preferably diamond trinkets.” E. Morris,  Theodore Rex  (2001), 436
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

This is bullier!

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[At Yosemite, in 1903] For the next forty-eight hours, the boy in Roosevelt, never quite supressed, reveled in his wild surroundings. “This ...
Monday, 10 March 2025

The president usually had an open book on his desk, and was quite capable of snatching it up when conversation flagged

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Petitioners visiting the Executive Office learned to keep talking, because the president usually had an open book on his desk, and was quite...
Sunday, 9 March 2025

Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his character

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Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

If it had been I who had been shot, he wouldn’t have got away so easily … I’d have guzzled him first

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Sincere, if slight, grief for McKinley – a cold-blooded politician he had never much cared for – struggled in Roosevelt’s breast with more v...
Friday, 7 March 2025

Unwilling to disturb his sleeping family, he had no choice but to break into his new home

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On the icy midnight of Sunday, 1 January 1899, the silence brooding over Eagle Street, Albany, was disturbed by the sound of smashing glass....