Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear friend, primum vivere, deinde philosophari...
...principal speaker at the dedication exercises at Wesleyan this afternoon will be Nicholas Murray Butler, a close personal friend of Stephen Henry Olin, in whose memory the building was crected...
Since the elements of a first class Franco-British tiff were thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...
Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...
...Occidental wisdom, he escapes Asia, arrives impoverished in London, where he shrinks from bustle, rain, cupidity. He sells some jewels, and moves to Claridge's.* Naked heiresses disgust him, aristocratic drawing rooms open to actors and prizefighters amaze. At Cambridge he devours the knowledge which a cultured French friend sorts out for him. When his French friend dies, Jâli mourns him deeply, but ruminates upon the curious Western distaste for death. The East, having learned the desirability of death, celebrates its advent with garish ceremony. In the course of much contemplation, Jâli suddenly notices...