Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next President Doumergue, presumably at the suggestion of M. Briand, asked the latter's friend, Senator Paul Doumer, to form a cabinet. Senator Doumer has had a long and honorable political career* and has not been greatly embroiled in the recent political struggle. He could come forward without stirring the animosities which spring up about every man recently in power. He might succeed in conciliating Blum. He failed...
Died. Perch H. Fitzgerald, 96, intimate and biographer of Charles Dickens, in London. Litterateur, painter, sculptor, he was founder of the famed "Boz Club" and a friend of Carlyle...
...address myself to this question by an article which has recently appeared by my learned friend and colleague, Professor Edwin M. Borchard of the Yale Law School. In the CRIMSON, his article was given the caption "Question of Joining World Court is of Trivial Importance," and while he might disavow such a conclusion the general emphasis of what he wrote was certainly in that direction...
...first story interested a man who knew King Frederick VI. This friend persuaded the monarch to send him to school. He was very backward in his classes. He graduated, wrote dramas which were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked...
...sick in the Calle Margaritas Cervantes, where Vespaciano lived. He cured her by repeating a formula, which his neighbors whispered to each other afterward with frightened glances. But there was no fright in the woman. She worshiped him and came to his patio the next night with a crippled friend. The women were joined by an old man and a boy, and every evening after that, when twilight enchanted the Calle Margaritos Cervantes, a grotesque company came up the blue street one by one and knocked on the door of José Vespaciano...