Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven weeks ago, Secretary of State Kellogg was pleased to hear that Senor Adolfo Diaz had been elected President of Nicaragua by that republic's congress in joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew...
...friend once asked him: "Jim, is this right since that primary you have been on the wagaon since primary...
...Duty. The Associated Press reported that a U. S. correspondent at Moscow was recently charged $66 duty on six 25c tubes of U. S. tooth paste sent him by a Manhattan friend. Urbane, he presented the tooth paste to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in lieu of paying the duty...
...books though long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce to a friend in London; where, with more strands bought of Benjamin Franklin, who kept worms in Philadelphia, 10¼ yards of cloth were woven for the friend's wife's dress. In 1791 a Mr. Aspinwall persuaded the New York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every...
...becomes mysterious, he makes her father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale has sung. Then go she does, Anne Dunnock of Dry Coulter, to equivocal Paris where the grocer's son, an artist, turns out to be no lover...