Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might not guess from his name, Captain Harrigan is Irish and was in the war, and he is a very good friend of Miss Groody's. In fact he's her husband. But the boy didn't know that...
...friend Corneille," Moliere is supposed to have said, "has a familiar who inspires him with the finest verses in the world. But sometimes the familiar leaves him to shift for himself, and then he fares very badly." Surely his familiar was close beside him when in one of his bursts of genius he wrote "Rodogune," a play which he himself with right considered his--greatest triumph. In fact were it only for the magnificent and terrible character of Cleopatre, a living presentation of the worst form of feminine dignity, the play would be worthy of the close attention and admiration...
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania is a champion for his state-more exactly, he is the most outspoken and vigorous champion for that potent coterie of Mellon-Reed-Pepper, which has its politico business headquarters in Pittsburgh. A member of this group and a good friend of Senator Reed is Cyrus E. Woods,* who was recently nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission by , President Coolidge. Senator Reed was busily bestirring himself to secure Mr. Woods' confirmation in the Senate, when the hawk-eyed New York World intervened and thwacked him editorially last week...
...months ago a limp figure, bleeding from ear, nose, jaw, forehead, was carried to a Manhattan hospital, almost dead. They registered him as Lawrence Buermeyer, instructor in philosophy at New York University. He had been discussing philosophy with his friend since college days at Princeton, Joseph Carson Jr. of Columbia University's philosophical faculty. They had been drinking grain alcohol and water as they argued. Philosopher Buermeyer's wounds, inflicted with a shoe, fists, a milk bottle, a broom, were the tokens of a disagreement. Philosopher Carson, having confessed, was put under $10,000 bail (TIME...
...white lie. You can't blame Fall very much for that. He would have had a yellow streak a foot wide if he hadn't tried to protect his old friend after all Doheny had done for him." Then the jurors paused for dinner, sang "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," argued, turned on the phonograph, argued, slept, argued. . . . At 9:30 a.m., another ballot was taken. The vote was unanimous for acquittal...