Woodrow

American  

[wood-roh] / ˈwʊd roʊ /

noun

1. a male given name.

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Example Sentences

The final chapter of his life included a yearlong safari in Africa; a spiteful splitting of the Republicans as a third-party presidential candidate in 1912; a near-fatal exploration of Brazil’s River of Doubt; and vociferous, bitter opposition to President Woodrow Wilson’s policies.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Troy narrates efforts by Harry and Jack Warner—the Warner Brothers—to propagandize the New Deal; Henry Ford’s ham-fisted attempt to keep Woodrow Wilson out of the war in Europe; the magazine publisher Henry Luce’s early approval and later detestation of Roosevelt; Oprah Winfrey’s decision to cast aside her apolitical stance and go all in for Barack Obama; and much else.

From The Wall Street Journal

Congress repealed the law in 1920, and President Woodrow Wilson pardoned almost everyone convicted under it.

From Slate

Only two years before I was born, in 1916, President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson spent Easter at the Greenbrier.

From Literature

The U.S. holiday was originally called Armistice Day, because it commemorated the date and time — Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. — of the signing of the cease-fire that ended World War I. In 1919, on the first anniversary of the armistice, President Woodrow Wilson said that the day would “be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service.”

From MarketWatch