Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, March 8, p. 39, you say that Robert Todd Lincoln was in the Ford Theatre box the evening his father was shot. Is that so? Please ask Mr. Lincoln himself. I was informed by a friend that Mr. Lincoln told him that he was in the White House the night of the tragedy; that his father had asked him to go, but he had refused,, being weary and wanting to go to bed; that he first knew of the affair when some one drove hastily up to the White House and informed him; that then he went immediately...
...happened fiat Mrs. Landes went on to announce herself as a candidate for Mayor in 1926. The two nominees turned out to be Mrs. Landes and her old friend Mayor Brown, and the incident of 1924 was recalled. Some 40 bootleggers were being tried in court and the Federal prosecutor brought out that they had tapped the telephone wires in June, 1924, and passed the word around, "Lay low until 'Doc' Brown comes back to town...
...himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt if there was anything he wanted to say before they put Ruff in it, for it was the last time he would ever see his friend. "He was a good dog," said Dick McDevitt in a clear voice, "but he is a dead...
...winter evening not long before the 20th Century, a friend came to Harwarden. Gladstone was resting upstairs, and Mrs. Gladstone served tea. The conversation turning on some serious question, the friend desiring to appear pious said: "Well, these are very serious times. But we know that there is One Above who takes care of us all." "Yes," replied Mrs. Gladstone, "he'll be right down...
...Boston has, apparently, lost whatever whimsy it once possessed. People here are like the lady who whispered to the friend with the rattling program, "Now they are all dead, and we know they are all dead, we can laugh at the funny places." And the funny places are the crude places. Only the occasional eye notices the delicate nuances of character, wishes to notice them. Yet it is for such that Sutton Vane wrote his play--and it is for such that the Copley players are producing it. So one must credit them with a task, verging on the impossible...