Theodore Roosevelt

in a sentence

I bet that's all you know about Teddy Roosevelt.†  (source) Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine, 1989

He preferred to be called Uncle Eamon, and when he strode through campus, he did so as would a beloved uncle, a first-term Teddy Roosevelt, accessible and genuine.†  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

Equally mind-boggling were the building's natural treasures—plesiosaur skeletons, a priceless meteorite collection, a giant squid, even a collection of elephant skulls brought back from an African safari by Teddy Roosevelt.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Next came Theodore Roosevelt, head of the U.S. Civil Service Commission and a human gunboat.†  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

'You can refine it, and don't overlook the Japanese and Port Arthur and old Teddy Roosevelt.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

Now he quoted Theodore Roosevelt whom he resembled a lot: " 'I could carve a better man out of a banana.†  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

"An American president by the name of Teddy Roosevelt," said the demon.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Fiend And The Forge, 2010

He begins to wander, gazing at titles and authors: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, another of Woodrow Wilson.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Teddy Roosevelt once bailed out Irwin's show when it went broke and got stranded in Sheepshead Bay.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

He could quote glibly from Plato, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Theodore Roosevelt, the Marquis de Sade and Warren G. Harding.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

It was hard to imagine this man with his silver hair and Teddy Roosevelt moustache, this man who had once run for lieutenant governor, out in the county getting soused.†  (source) Jill McCorkle, Ferris Beach, 1990

All the class pictures are in there, from the seventh grade through twelfth, with individual head shots of seniors, their names followed by the names of the high schools they would have graduated from on the outside: Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Hoover, Sacred Heart.†  (source) Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar, 1973

It was in part a reaction to the increasing complexity and multiplicity of legislative issues—even Santo Domingo seemed much farther away than Fort Sumter (for blocking his Santo Domingo treaty, the Senate was told by Teddy Roosevelt that it was "wholly incompetent"), and "interstate commerce" seemed much less exciting and promising than "free silver."†  (source) John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955