Word: befrienders
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...whom she has picked to befriend turns out to be a fusty, impoverished old codger (Walter Connolly) whose sense of honor recoils at first from the idea. But the glowworm eventually convinces him. Unhappily, Lu does not feel obliged to make everybody happy. She goes off with a head waiter instead of her industrialist...
...preached to mid-day crowds. The Brotherhood never materialized. After Harvard he went to Oxford, joined George Bernard Shaw's Fabian Society. After Oxford he studied medicine at Manhattan's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Although he never received a medical degree, all hoboes whom he tried to befriend called...
...first character on the stage, a Stevens undergraduate, depicted a Neanderthal type of man. He loped apelike across the stage on naked 20th Century legs. He was awed by the forces of Nature until he discovered weapons, tools. Toward the end of this section "Control," a child, appeared to befriend the undergraduate. "Control" then stepped gingerly to the front of the stage and delivered himself of a speech to the effect that without tools man is nothing, with them he is everything...
...Scribner incident was important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...
...Columbia Burlesque management has anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...