Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House bachelor, as he was during Mrs. Coolidge's attack of grippe last month. One evening the President appeared at the theatre, for the first time in months, to see Criss Cross, a Fred Stone musical comedy. With him went Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, oldtime family friend. Next day Actor Fred Stone and his daughter, Dorothy, were luncheon guests at the White House. Mrs. Coolidge stayed in Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with egg-rolling on the White House lawn, annual Easter diversion of Washington's when-we-were-very-young...
...responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago." Nor does it matter that Senator Deneen was the good friend of Mr. Smith when the latter was trying to get into the Senate. Now Senator Deneen is supporting one Otis F. Glenn, the opponent of Mr. Smith for the vacant Senate seat. To oust Governor Small, Senator Deneen is grooming one Louis L. Emmerson. Everything will be settled...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison founded the Bankers Trust in 1903. He was then the energetic and radiant vice president of the First National Bank in Manhattan and the friend of many an important personage of Wall Street. When he gave a dinner it was well attended. At one such dinner he presented his idea of a trust company that would not compete for business with commercial banks; but would act as the fiduciary agent for state and national banks throughout the country, and would accept as deposits the reserve funds of other banks...
...killer of the deer was Chief of Police H. M. Haight of Park Ridge, Ill. (suburb of Chicago). He took it to a butcher, had it dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot...
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian aristocrat, is the backer and passenger of the flight. Seriously wounded in the War, he was invalided out of service and sent to Holland in the German consular service. A close friend of the former Crown Prince, he shared the first days of his dreary exile. He is 36, married, superstitious...