Word: confr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be idle here to list all the theatrical ventures on which Jed Harris's rivals and confrères are at present focusing their furious attention. A few promised productions which are worth expecting...
...this family doctor had to perform, on the spot and without the elaborate accessories a specialist would have at his command, a monstrously delicate operation. His humble confrères everywhere must in emergencies do deeds comparably as difficult. They go their long ways night and day unapplauded otherwise than by the devotion of their patients...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
Arriving with a cold and a headache in the gay Capital of France, which received him most ungaily, he proceeded to defend his confrère. The two Premiers had a heart-to-heart talk. After various conferences, Mr. MacDonald was seen with a wan smile, for his exertions on behalf of Edouard had caused him excessive fatigue. He declared that neither he nor the French Premier was a magician-"we cannot wave a wand and accomplish miracles." But he declared that they were both, substantially, in agreement...
...Boston Transcript (to Henry Cabot Lodge a very, very Boswell) is apparently unable to take Mr. Lodge's Senate confrère, William E. Borah seriously. Mr. Borah plans a trip to Russia this summer and has let that fact be known. Says The Transcript...