Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviation Unit, of which Admiral Sims later said, "The great aircraft force which was ultimately assembled in Europe had its beginning in a small group of undergraduates at Yale" (TIME, June 14, BOOKS). Trubee's father, the late Henry P. Davison, Morgan partner, and his father's friend, were unable to withstand his arguments, his zeal. They became ardent backers, bought flying boats and equipment for the Unit. In September, 1917, 29 fliers were thus made ready for the War-except for Trubee, who continued to be the spirit that held the organization together, even from his hospital...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, Morgan partner. Mr. Morrow is also an old friend (Amherst classmate) of Calvin Coolidge-was, perhaps, Mr. Coolidge's best friend among the great, before he became President. But, so far, Mr. Morrow has had no overt connection with the Administration, except to tackle the thankless thorny job of aviation investigation. And his influence upon Mr. Coolidge's appointments has been conspicuously negligible-much too negligible in many people's opinion...
Quoth Clemenceau: "The expense is of no consequence. These Americans have an Ambassador here who is an old friend of mine. Put me through to M. Herrick on the telephone...
...dinky little white-haired man trotted into the stockholders' meeting of the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. last week in Manhattan, slapped many a friend on the back, invited one and sundry to come and visit him at his country estate out-side of Manhattan. He was Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky...
...three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...