Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a footnote in your quotations from President Coolidge's address before the Pan-Amer- ican Congress, are these words, "A scarcely disguised rebuke to the suspicion-fomenting lie-circulating Hearst press." I am no friend of that slavering, slobbering, unintellectual and excuseless vulgarity known as the Hearst Press. But I hardly think President Coolidge's remarks were directed against the thirty-five odd" Hearst papers which have stood back of him as they have no President in more than a quarter of a century. The Hearst lies were directed against the Senators who oppose the Administration...
Charles Curtis, the Indian-blooded Kansan, accepted Senator Borah's invitation to proclaim himself no friend of the palefaces' firewater...
...Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath has a gorgeously all-concealing top. . . . She has already given a preliminary party at which I was not present...
Come to My House. Olive Borden, a synthetic star at best, is herein tangled in elaborately scanty clothes and in the wiles of a blackmailer who has seen her entering the house of a presumably dissolute male friend. The male friend kills the blackmailer and is saved from the iron hand of the law when the heroine confesses her visitation. The invitation in the title should be declined by highly discriminating cine-maddicts...
...Chinese culture has its roots in ancient times," Dr. Hornbeck said, "and government in China has always been a matter of persons. Confucius laid down the fundamentals of human conduct in precepts for the relation between ruler and the subject, husband and wife, parent and child, senior and junior, friend and friend...