Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to me that monuments should be free from at least human indiscretions. Suppose you were to save your country from the British or the Boers or something and had a monument erected by your friends to commemorate the fact. Would it please you to have Mazie and her boy friend taking pictures with your monument for background? Your heroic bones would squirm in the final resting place and your spirit would sock some unsuspecting medium in the seventh veil. At least, if they wouldn't, you are not fit to be called a four hundred descent Bostonian...
...very easy to get suppressed in this town. All of which reminds me that I wrote a version of the story in the last "Mercury" merely to prove that I had read it and lived--which is more than some have done. For instance there is one friend of mine who died laughing after two pages. He was buried with a police guard and a sermon by the Reverend Pereival Propriety of Chastity Lane...
Farinacci. Jurists who opined that nothing could surpass in lefthandedness the defense just quoted, blinked wide-eyed as the chief defense barrister, Deputy Farinacci, the personal friend of Mussolini and Secretary General to the Fascist party, boldly cast aside all pretense that this was a murder trial and not a mere political whitewashing. He shouted: "Why was Matteotti kidnaped? For personal reasons or for private vengeance? No. Matteotti was kidnaped because he gravely offended Italy's collective sentiment of patriotism, because he undermined our national solidarity, because he was outspoken in his praise of the enemy of the State...
...became Finance Minister. While serving in this post he associated himself with the great Viscount Kato, then Foreign Minister; and together they fostered the policy of bringing Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. Such is the status of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki, successor to his late friend and leader Premier Viscount Kato (TIME, Feb. 8). With the passing of Kato the strength of the Kensei-kai has waned. Only by compromising with the Seiyu-kai has it been possible for Premier Wakatsuki to get action and roll up at the session just closed a formidable list...
...place. THE WISDOM TOOTH-Glowing fantasy about a poor clerk who became a boy again for a few hours. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden's more or less annual revival of Rostand's classic story of a man who made love for his more handsome friend. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OP MRS. CHEYNEY-Ina Claire and a highly polished troupe in a story of stolen pearls in the English nobility. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-The last few weeks of the tale of $20,000 behind the scenes in a Broadway show. Is ZAT So?-Prizefighters and society...