Word: balm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balm...
...distinguished a career a man should have put his great talents to so base a use as attempting, by insinuation and innuendo, to besmirch the reputation of one who, at a critical hour, single-handed and alone, sought to apply to the ills of the world the healing balm of peace...
...patrons of his stores, the personal life of this swart storeman is not a happy one. His first wife discovered, after living with him for a number of years, that he was "sulky," divorced him. His second wife, young, is suing for divorce and for $7,000,000 "heart balm." His stock is the highest listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but he does not care...
Thousands of women and children deluded into peril by the White hope of General Wrangel, he succored. His was the first balm to heal the wounds of fire at Smyrna. Grimly he protected U. S. interests at Lusanne conferences. And last year he was the first diplomat to call on Mustafa Kemal, President of New Turkey...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, La-Follette of college presidents, there is balm in Galesburg, Ill. Last week, the young men and women of Knox College stuck placards about their campus, issued a statement: "We believe Mr. Meiklejohn to be the exponent of the liberal college and believe he is indispensable to Knox if Knox is to maintain the leadership of liberal colleges which she has attained through the activities of preceding administra- tions...