Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two letters are perhaps the most intimate glimpses of the character of President Eliot that will be found in this Memorial Issue. The tribute of a true contemporary, of a close friend, of a fellow teacher impresses the understanding as does nothing else. 11 Quincy Street...
...course Miss Hayes was asked the inevitable question concerning Boston audiences. "I find them", she said, "most responsive, although hardly representative of the dignified. Puritanesque tradition so often associated with the town." At this particular moment a best friend and severest critic asked, just why the second act was so different one night last week...
Died. Claude Monet, 86, chief painter of the impressionists; in Giverny, France. After early discouragements from his father and the critics, he won, some time before old age, universal recognition for his singularly poetic landscapes, examples of which are frequent in U. S. museums. Georges Clemenceau, his life-long friend, was with him at the end, inconsolable...
...crowded them in his elevator, he was retained for his faithfulness. And then had come forgers, offering him $15,000 to "look the other way" while they entered an office in the theatre building and drew bogus checks. Mr. Roedel's duplicity had been discovered through his girl friend, aged 19, whose heart he had won with free cinema tickets and whom he had taken to live with him in a $325-per-month Fifth Avenue apartment in his sudden, ill-got prosperity. She had given him away by bragging to an old friend of Mr. Roedel...
...which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed to have been drowned, recovered and cremated on the Leghorn beach. This identity is masked, however, for the fiction's sake, under a name Lord Byron used to call his lonely-hearted friend, Shiloh...