Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would recall the inscription on her cornerstone, and be pleased to find many more by the same author graven here and there within the edifice. The author was diminutive twinkle-eyed the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn,* the first verse...
...Said Lawyer Steuer: "Harry Daugherty -yesterday, sought after by all the land; today, hounded; a broken old man; his life spent; his best friend, the President, dead; his close friend Jess Smith, gone, a suicide ; his wife gone; his political career over. He went to the 'shack,' and those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So this lonesome old man, alone with those records, destroyed them...
...Later, in 1924, Mr. Stephenson was ousted from the national Klan because he had violated his oath of allegiance and had been "disrespectful to virtuous womanhood." He had already organized an independent Klan, had himself chosen Grand Dragon; and then replied to his old friend, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans: "The present national head is an ignorant, uneducated, uncouth individual who picks his nose at the table and eats his peas with his knife. He has neither courage nor culture...
...Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...illiterate, powerful old man made her much that she was. With such love as she and Oswald Henshawe had, another woman might have stayed happy. But ambition for him and hatred of their poverty ate her heart. Her wit sharpened when they called on his stuffy, kindly German business friends. She had been formed for distinction, for surroundings of ease and dignity and charm. Childless, she needed scope to spend herself without stint on her friendships, for she had that concentration of affection which makes individuals of its most commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with...