Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that work might get started on the rivers below Illinois at once, Mayor Thompson's bluster vanished. He went back to Chicago saying he would work to draft Mr. Coolidge again for President. When Representative Reid next called at the White House he found that his large friend had made no dent in the Coolidge opposition to the Reid bill...
...council-on which he had served since 1923 is a sort of chief morale officer to the building trades-to devote himself fully to his Fidelity & Deposit Co. and his American Bonding Co., to his Manhattan law firm (Roosevelt & O'Connor) and to the presidential candidacy of his friend, Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, whose pre-convention campaign of 1924 he managed from the confines of a wheel chair...
...welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office of paunchy, sleepy-eyed French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, his friend and frequent counselor...
Whispering Friends. On the night it opened, the more important play reviewers, foes and friends of its author, famed George M. Cohan, whispered among themselves and decided to attend the revival of Our Betters (see above). What they missed was one more farce about the newly married couple which was, in fact, less of an addition to this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances...
...last week, at Kansas City, Mo., Reporter Moses Lamson caught his Robert Malachi Crowe. No doctors had helped, nor any policemen; only a furious Negro friend whose wife Robert Malachi Crowe was blackguardedly courting. Detectives hustled the prisoner to Chicago, where a judge quickly sentenced him to prison. The reporter received a $1,000 bonus and the Tribune the want ad publicity, as the moral approbation, upon which it had calculated...