Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sculptor Harold P. Erskine, of Manhattan, also an habitué of Africa, tendered to the American Museum a bust of his friend, Akeley, gaunt of jaw, shaggy of head with elephant scars on his cheek...
Ileana, Princess of Rumania, is the girl friend. The villain in the case is the New York World, which last week published "a fairy story from life." It told how Ileana met her "Prince Charming" in the form of Cadet Glasgow at a West Point dance in October; how she returned two weeks later with her mother to watch him march in the rain; how, the day before sailing, she rushed up to West Point to have luncheon with Cadet Glasgow (and others). She had invited him to luncheon in Manhattan, but Superintendent Merch B. Stewart of West Point...
...France lights his inevitable cigaret, chats with it bobbing between his lips and winks now and then a twinkling eye, then his fat is forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped...
Oxford man, scorner of the pedestrian scholarship of his time, indefatigable linguist, doctor of theology and doctor miraculorum (wonders) at Paris, friend of Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, and of Guy de Foulques (later Pope Clement IV), this Franciscan monk, Roger Bacon, had few intellectual peers in his century, whether or not he invented the contrivances dubiously attributed to him: a telescope, burning glasses, spectacles. His most popularly famed experiments were with gunpowder, of which he was the first important historian rather than the "inventor...
...them further-he the disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which in great part would be the biography of his friend, Ernest Robert Graham, mightiest builder of all time in the U. S., commander of regiments of shovelers, armies of masons, riveters, roofers, glaziers, painters and plumbers...