Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your magazine TIME has been very highly recommended to me by a friend; so recently while in San Francisco I purchased a copy with the idea of sending in my subscription...
...announced that the President would contribute an article for a memorial number of the Michiganensian (University of Michigan) to be published next June in honor of the late President Marion LeRoy Burton, friend of the President and onetime neighbor at Northampton, Mass., who nominated him at Cleveland in 1924. ¶Following the passage of an appropriation of $50,000 for the expenses of U. S. delegates to the League of Nations preliminary disarmament conference, the President notified the League Secretariat that the U. S. would participate in the work of the Preparatory Commission, as it is called. Hugh Gibson...
...would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel laid in Burmah, but this masque or scenario for a "fairy play." Mrs. Toon guarded the manuscript. For Love of the King was not published until 1922 in England...
...opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
...story and you have only shown me one--the outside. Yet I sincerely believe that if you can keep your husband from dipping his bread in his breakfast coffee you will have done all that any wife could do--except to continue, as Glenn Hunter has said, 'his best friend and most severe critic'--for he will need both...