Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...welcomed by the Mayor. Stepping off his train at the Gare St. Lazare, he was embraced by the Military Governor of Paris, sleek General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud. French throngs jammed the station, crying "Vive L'Ambassadeur! Vive Herrick!" Not often does France welcome so tried and sterling a friend as the U. S. Ambassador, Myron Timothy Herrick, who returned, last week, after a long, treacherous illness at his home in Cleveland, to Paris, his other home...
Practice & Business. Stories of the industry and honesty of young Herrick beggar those of the hatchet, the cherry tree. Legendary is the $8,000 note, endorsed for a slippery friend, which the young lawyer and his wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick...
...barber, a friend of famed Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, was employed by the Albert Hotel in Manhattan, owned by the brother of Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. Hearing of the barber's suicide, Painter Ryder was shocked. He painted a picture of a skeleton jockey perched upon a great white race horse. The great white horse was galloping around a race track. In the corner of the picture was a snake, to symbolize temptation...
...what he remembers, sitting in the cinema dressing room over a makeup table. He remembers himself as General Dolgorucki, a gaudy young officer, commander-in-chief of the Tsar's army. Two revolutionists come to this young officer to have their passports examined; a beautiful actress and her friend, a young theatre manager. The Tsar's cousin sends the man to prison for an impertinence and asks the girl to have dinner with...
...home and the power of Russia abroad, he dug his own grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...