Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no Jesus Christ in this either at the head or along the line," replied Senator Reed. "My friend has gone into Biblical matters, a question I did not understand he was at all familiar with...
...Clemenceau pronounced no public utterance. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Frenchmen dubbed him "The Father of Victory," and with that supreme laurel wreathing his brow he has felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom...
Seemingly much moved, the aged "Tiger of France" declared: "It was the express desire of my departed friend that I should speak here. My words will be few. M. Geffroy asked his friends to avoid vanity and worldly honors at his funeral...
...Paris, in the Quartier Latin, one Juliana Hastre, young Argentine singer, was gowning for dinner when a messenger delivered to her an egg of prehistoric proportions, an Easter token from her friend Mlle. Van Hong Lu in India. Taking the present with her to the evening's revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately...
...passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...