Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before General Lincoln C. Andrews was called before the Committee (TIME, April 19) he was warned to guard his statements, for anti-saloon officials were waiting for his official scalp. Why, no one knew. He is certainly no friend of the Wets...
...lunch the next day, Dr. C. A. Mailloux, honorary president of the commission, refused to speak until the gallant Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...
...omnivorous reader, intimate friend of many men of eminence, widely respected student of history and economics, James Louis Garvin has a mind exceptionally balanced and trained to cope with what he calls-and possesses much of-"the common stock of civilization"-all knowledge...
...spent five years at the Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...