Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life for her in Italy is not all that she could wish nor will Philadelphia do. Her mother does not appreciate her. So after a few days with her confidant-father she goes to New York where one of her friends, away from town, has loaned her a studio. Delice...
The Author. Axel Munthe, 72, one-time cynically fashionable doctor, confidant (he sometimes extricated himself from pretty malades imaginaires just in time), raconteur of Paris and Rome, attending physician to the late Queen of Sweden, according to his own account took from the rich with his right hand, gave to...
In a year Publisher Byoir became the best known, most universally liked American in Cuba, confidant alike of President Gerardo Machado y Morales and Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. U. S. investors in Cuba visit Minister Harry Frank Guggenheim first as a matter of form. When their business gets...
In Mandalay, Author Maugham met the old lady who had been the real cause, in her youth, of the British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In...
But as the confidant and adviser of William of Orange, the tool of Barley, Queen Anne's prime minister, and the publicity agent of George I, DeFoe occupies a position in English history and politics, less important, but no less interesting than his place in letters.