Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Craig, my friend Craig, is safe. He has taken the veil...
Jacques Deval wrote the original play, and Wingate and our old friend P. G. Wodehouse the English version. The three have produced a sparkling bit of dialogue and clever situations with a very proper sense of restraint and emphasis...
...poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then she watches her son grow up, go to war, come back to marry a frivolous pretty girl and tear up his father's fields to find the coal that lies under...
...contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate students he trained an active group of acknowledged experts in the history of international relations. Many students he inspired and guided to enter the foreign service of their country. Both students and colleagues found in him a firm friend, and hold him in deep, and, enduring affection...
...Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when he served as the principal representative of the American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations...