Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gerald P. Nye, 34, Senator from North Dakota, tightlipped, square-shouldered, lean newspaper editor, is the other insurgent youngster. Up from the prairies he sprang to defeat President Coolidge's good friend, Louis B. Hanna, in the Republican primaries last summer. Then last week he informed the President that he frowned upon the appointment of any of Mr. Hanna's friends to Federal jobs either in Washington or North Dakota. Forthwith, the President patched up a peace...
...captain of the soccer team, member of most of the reception and prom committees, an honor cadet, a President's appointee, the son of a colonel. Now he is a much twitted cadet. Underclassmen salute him with a smirk in their eyes; seniors ask him how his girl friend is getting along...
...Harvard friend wrote to me last week and told me that one of the things that remained most vividly in his memory was his visit to the Harvard chapel in Southwark Cathedral. He asked me if I would go and look up an entry for him in the visitors' book which is kept at the entrance to the chapel...
...found in the visitors' book the entry my friend wanted, and was interested to see that in the end column, headed "Date of graduation." many of the recent young Harvard visitors had put 1927, 1928, and even 1929. It is to be hoped that their ability and industry will be such that no examiner will make the prophecies go wrong--London Evening News, November...
...king's men fall thudding down upon the stage. Mix this with a little romantic irony and two quarters of a pint of boisterousness-result, applause. The first night audience at "The Orange Comedy" applauded often and more often. Nor was it the feeble courtesy to friend and foe 30 often a part of amateur theatricals: it came from the moist palm of approval...