Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manager movement, conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...teacher in Chicago, to which you have attached this caption: "Obvious Distinction," and answered in your usual admirable manner. It recalls to my mind a little incident of my girlhood, 50 years ago. A miss of 12 or 13, I was having breakfast in the house of a friend of my own age. During the course of the meal, the other girl sitting at her father's right hand, and probably pondering a Sunday-School lesson, asked quietly: "Papa, what is a concubine...
...embarrassed. I wondered a little, that my friend should ask such an obvious question, being more of a reader than she was. No doubt father and mother both explained afterward...
...When a patient, one Andrew Gould, was dying, he left a message with John Seibert who, 27 years later, found the family of Gould, delivered the message. After the World War, Veteran Seibert organized the first post of the A.E.F., named it for Quentin Roosevelt, son of his oldtime friend and commander...
Significance. To those observers who believe that President Calles stands firmly behind his old friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon, his speech to the Mexican legislators was not without considerable election import...