Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot the white man Marvin," ran the confession of Eskimo, Kudlooktoo. "Seventeen years ago I shot him to save the life of my friend Inuhitsoq. Now I am a Christian. I have just learned to be a Christian. I confess...
They read that Eskimo Kudlooktoo and his friend Eskimo Inukitsoq (nicknamed "Harrigan") were returning on April 10, 1909 with Professor Marvin from an expedition supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary...
Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
...hours later Mrs. Wilson was in Vienna. There she was met by an intimate friend, Miss Eleanor McCarthy, New Orleans lumber heiress, able aviatrix...
...President's staunch personal friend, onetime (1920-24) President Obregon, declared to newsgatherers...