Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer questionable that at this time Washington began to yield his heart to the love of his life, who was the wife of his best friend-unless she herself had been his best friend...
...always, I called upon good old Jess Hawley immediately after his arrival. "Wah-Hoo-Wah, Jess," I said. It is part of my big democratic nature always to speak to people in their own language. "Wah-Hoo-Wah," Joe," he responded heartily, for we are great friends. "Thanks for trying to help me out last Saturday," he continued. For, as you all remember. I tried to instill confidence at the last moment into Jess's team by predicting they would score 27 points against Yale. Now wasn't that absurd? Ofcourse. I couldn't carry the deception...
...making speeches which the Canadian press describes as "barbed with shafts against the United States." If there are criticisms to be made, and citizens of both countries realize that there undoubtedly are, they would be better received if addressed directly to the accused person, and not to a friend. The complete isolation which the uninformed Englishman believes that North America suffers has welded its two most important component parts into close sympathy...
...third novel Major Hamilton Gibbs has continued his struggle to put down on paper his reactions to our late friend,--the War. In "Labels" he has written what must be almost an autobiography, since its pages are too starkly intense to allow of much second-hand material...
...summer and autumn (1920) of his life it gains something of interest from the fact, not imparted with other items of information on the "jacket," that Wendell, dubious about the willingness of any publisher to bring it out, handed it, a month or two before his death, to his friend Mr. Bolton, librarian of the Athenaeum, bidding him do what he would with regard to its publication. The fortunate outcome of his arrangement is its issue, in a charming form, by the Harvard University Press...