Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, often dubbed "Silent Cal" by those who do not know him, is at times talkative when he is with a friend who he knows will not put a political twist on everything he says. Bruce Barton, who agrees with Mr. Coolidge on religion and many another fundamental, was exactly the person to reveal the President to his people. He was permitted to publish, five days later, through the Associated Press, a report of the interview in which the President said...
...Harry M. Daugherty's life-long friend, who in 1923 suicided in the onetime Attorney General's apartment in Washington...
...seemed barely able to keep open his night-club eyes. Borotra leaped for the net, strained, caracoled, grimaced, and wagged his jaunty head-to no avail. Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste's placements too well thought, and 22-year-old Lacoste won the championship...
...Tully, hobo-litterateur: "The October issue of Vanity Fair was published, with an article by me on my late friend, Rudolph Valentino. Of his first wife I wrote: 'She was one of the many zeros in the arithmetic of life.' Of his second wife: . 'While living with her husband in Hollywood, Miss Hudnut became so dictatorial that men associated with Valentino in the making of films did not wish to have her about...
However, my wife is an able talker. She will be one of a flying squadron of speakers to take the stump for me during the last five weeks before election day. My good friend, Mayor Dever of Chicago, approves of Mrs. Brennan's campaign activity-and so do I. In fact, I am helping her write the speeches...