Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame Subscriber Coward and his friend for having a disagreement while playing the new game, "Babbitt" ? The definition of a Babbitt published in TIME, July 26, [MISCELLANY, p. 29] was most vague. Why not be specific, if you set yourselves up as authorities ? ... Is it part of the game to point at a specimen, crying out its name, as in "Beaver...
...good." Ralph H. Cameron, senator from Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should decide to run." Frank W. Stearns, who knows the Boston department store business, who is perhaps Mr. Coolidge's closest friend, came to visit indefinitely, to cheer the President, to fish. ¶ Official Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark was away in Boston. The President found himself at the Executive offices near Paul Smith's Hotel one morning, opening the mail and attending to the affairs...
...authors is John Dos Passos, unhappy young post- warrior; author of Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer. Yet many a busy mind is widely inquiring. And if he did not chance to stray so far afield himself, Secretary of State Kellogg may well have had his attention called by some friend to an unusual bit of Author Dos Passos' work in the current New Masses...
...Insull acknowledged giving $125,000 to Col. Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted his antiWorld Court campaign by contributing smaller sums to the Deneen faction supporting Senator McKinley against Col. Smith. Finally, archangel, Mr. Insull, had helped even the Democrats by slipping $15,000 to his old friend George E. "Boss" Brennan of Chicago, who as Democratic nominee opposed both Col. Smith and Senator McKinley. Said Senator Reed: "This utility giver is apparently out to land on both feet." During the week corroborating evidence was forthcoming from many a bigwig who came beneath Senator Reed's sharp...
...break will be published, among others, posthumously. Two handsome young matrons, Mrs. Alfred F. Madlener, and Mrs. John B. Drake Jr., daughter-in-law of John B. Drake (hotels), went to Chicago's grimy LaSalle street station to greet their father, Frank O. Lowden, the Farmer's Friend, as he stepped off the Twentieth Century Limited, home again after two months of watching German and Scandinavian farmers at their chores. The family party-Mrs. Lowden was with her husband-went first to the Drake-owned Blackstone Hotel, then to "Sinnissippi," the 4,500-acre Lowden agricultural estate down...