Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read TIME occasionally in a friend library. In your edition Aug. 1, p.13, heading NICARAGUA I can notice upon reading the contents, that the American public is misinformed in regard to the State Department policy in Latin America...
Inside a Pullman a girl awoke with a scream, rolled over with a moan, exclaiming, "I'm shot!" She was Miss Florence M. Anderson, Los Angeles schoolteacher, returning home from a summer course at the National University, Mexico City. Her friend, Miss Louise Rider, also of Los Angeles, summoned help and administered first aid. It was found that Miss Anderson had been shot in the left side toward the back, the slug piercing her intestines...
...Constant Reader" is the busiest writer to newspapers among U. S. citizens. Other citizens-such as "Vox Populi" and "A Friend"- correspond freely with their editors. Last week another name, not wholly unfamiliar to readers of newspaper letter columns, appeared in the New York Times. This correspondent "ventured a modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first...
...just like home for Mayor Walker. He chatted with everyone, gabbled on the ship's run, watched people drink champagne, radioed a wet friend (onetime Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey) to "have another." The day of the deck sports he gave out prizes, exacting a kiss from the first, a bunchy little girl of ten. It was not his fault that the next nine prize-winners were pretty young women. Chortling, he kissed them...
...finally redeeming himself by helping the heroine recover important state papers from the wily Talleyrand. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. From that day forth, it is, "I sez to my friend, the Emperor...