Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome...
...beaten and discredited in the primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back $2,500,000 to the city. Thompson's city-comptroller has had to resign, owing to huge deficits in the city's finances. Thompson's rich friend, George F. Getz, has transferred his funds and interest to the political projects of a man who used to handle the Getz trucking interests in Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that...
Carranza & Villa. When the years of revolutionary triumph began to lengthen, Obregon might easily have seized the Presidency. But he stood aside for his friend Venustiano Carranza, bearded, schoolmasterish, vain. When Carranza had had his swig of power and seemed reluctant to pass on the cup, General Obregon ousted him and probably issued the order which resulted in his assassination...
...dual program thus inaugurated by President Obregon was continued with less success by his friend and chosen successor President Plutarco Elias Calles-until Ambassador Morrow loomed pacifically...
...Naomi, frantic lest Brook miss the great love she herself had known so fleetingly, tells Brook why she need not obey her "father." In a frenzy of dutiful adolescent loyalty to this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later a lover in Paris rescues her from her duty. That she is glad to be rescued, in spite of criticism, consummates...