Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gloating Friend...
...another part of the city, at decaying Lafayette Square, other laborers fell upon the red brick house that John Hay built to be near his friend Henry Adams, in a golden day of cultured U. S. statesmanship. The Hay and Adams houses (twins) were sold last summer to make way for "Carlton Chambers" apartment (TIME, Sept...
...betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again...
Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...
...progress and condemned by the Church authorities, was received recently by the Widener Library and is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room. This volume which was presented to the Library by the late Robert Wheeler Willson, bears Galileo's autograph, being a special present to the author's friend, Sebastian Venieris...