Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Who's Who 1927 and Europe 1927 (standard international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive...
McAdoo Out? George W. Olvany, Tammany leader, reported that William G. McAdoo was out of the race for the 1928 Democratic nomination. Mr. Olvany said he received this information from a close friend of Mr. McAdoo. The name of the close friend was not given...
...present King and Queen, then Prince and Princess of Wales, donned masquerade costume and attended a great ball at Devonshire House. George V, with his traditional distaste for dancing, stood watching some rather portly couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
Sentimental feelings of satisfaction invariably follow announcements to the effect that a widow has been appointed in succeed her late husband in Congress, that one brother has been chosen for the place left vacant by the other's death, that one close friend is named to fill the shoes of a friend that is gone. With the news of the selection of James Lawrence '01 to the position on the Harvard Fund Council formerly held by the late John White Hallowell '01 comes that same satisfaction. Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Hallowell were classmates and close friends at college and afterwards...
...that when to him they should turn as to a friend in need, with them he cutteth...