Theodore Rooseveltin a sentence
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Theodore Roosevelt is remembered for saying: "Speak softly but carry a big stick."
Theodore Roosevelt = 26th President of the United States who is famous for breaking up anti-competitive U.S. cartels and... (1858-1919)
- Theodore Roosevelt's image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore.
- There, high up on a cliff face, were the sixty-foot-tall faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, carved right into the rock, staring somberly down on us.† (source)
- I bet that's all you know about Teddy Roosevelt."† (source)
- Next came Theodore Roosevelt, head of the U.S. Civil Service Commission and a human gunboat.† (source)
- 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)
- President Theodore Roosevelt ordered an independent investigation of The Jungles sensational details.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- Teddy Roosevelt once bailed out Irwin's show when it went broke and got stranded in Sheepshead Bay.† (source)
- He could quote glibly from Plato, Nietzsche, Montaigne, Theodore Roosevelt, the Marquis de Sade and Warren G. Harding.† (source)
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- 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)
- I was seated in my favorite armchair, reading a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, while my wife was leafing through the pages of a catalog.† (source)
- Now he quoted Theodore Roosevelt whom he resembled a lot: " 'I could carve a better man out of a banana.† (source)
- The First Lady has scoured storage rooms and the National Gallery, turning up assorted treasures such as paintings by Cezanne, Teddy Roosevelt's drinking mugs, and James Monroe's gold French flatware.† (source)
- Well, so I didn't have a soul to go fishing with but T.R. T.R.'s real name was Theodore Roosevelt.† (source)
- No. "An American president by the name of Teddy Roosevelt," said the demon.† (source)
- 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)
- 'You can refine it, and don't overlook the Japanese and Port Arthur and old Teddy Roosevelt.† (source)
- Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech in Kansas augured ill for President Taft, whatever that meant.† (source)
- 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)
- "Thanks, but I don't think you know much about Teddy Roosevelt."† (source)
- He had a mustache like Teddy Roosevelt's, but not so much face.† (source)
- After reading The Jungle President Theodore Roosevelt ordered an independent investigation of Sinclair's charges.† (source)
- Burnham met Teddy Roosevelt for lunch.† (source)
- Clinton's announcement depicted the changes as the most sweeping reform of the federal government's food safety policies since the days of Theodore Roosevelt.† (source)
- He was just a puppy when Papa took me to Atlanta to hear the president speak; I named him Theodore Roosevelt when I got home that daythen shortened it to T.R. so folks wouldn't think my dog was a Republican.† (source)
- She speaks in approving tones about Theodore Roosevelt's addition of the West Wing, which moved the offices of the president and his staff from the cramped second-floor environs of the White House residence into a far more spacious and businesslike environment.† (source)
- In fact, ever since that epic moment in 1898 when Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charged up San Juan Hill to liberate Cuba from Spain, the Cuban-U.S. relationship was mostly peaceful, free of tension, and, in a word, easy.† (source)
- And It Can Be Done and the sort of stuff that bigshot Teddy Roosevelt wrote in his books.† (source)
- Goodbye maw goodbye paw goodbye mule with your old hee-haw "As that great patriot Theodore Roosevelt has said " America I love you you're like a sweetheart to me "Don't go Joe run away they'll kill you I know it I'll never see you again."† (source)
- Eugene would find his father, leaning perilously on Jannadeau's dirty glass showcase, or on the creaking little fence that marked him off, talking politics, war, death, and famine, denouncing the Democrats, with references to the bad weather, taxation, and soupkitchens that attended their administration, and eulogizing all the acts, utterances, and policies of Theodore Roosevelt.† (source)
- Ted—Theodore Roosevelt Babbitt—a decorative boy of seventeen.† (source)
- Let me introduce my wife—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Eunice Littlefield Babbitt, Esquiress.† (source)
- Archer, as he looked back, was not sure that men like himself WERE what his country needed, at least in the active service to which Theodore Roosevelt had pointed; in fact, there was reason to think it did not, for after a year in the State Assembly he had not been re-elected, and had dropped back thankfully into obscure if useful municipal work, and from that again to the writing of occasional articles in one of the reforming weeklies that were trying to shake the country out of its…† (source)
- Why, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Babbitt!† (source)
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