Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought not to write at this I time because i am angry and disappointed. I have just picked up the latest copy of TIME. i feel as if I had lost a good friend...
...nearly eighty. At my time of life one does not make many new friends. For years one of my best friends was the New York Evening Post. My father used to every know Mr. evening when Bryant.* I bought the Post every evening when I left the office. After I retired it was brought to my home. About two of years ago it was bought by Mr. Curtis of Philadelphia, who published the Saturday Evening Post and other caviar. Then I felt as if I had lost a friend...
...manifestation of Italian nationalism. According to his own account he urged Emperor Franz Josef to make war on Serbia in 1906, again in 1909, again in 1912, again in 1913. In 1914 he succeeded. Twice he was removed from his post because he went too far, but his good friend Archduke Francis Ferdinand succeeded in having him reinstated...
Headwinds buffeted the Bowdoin and Peary as they sought to leave Etah harbor. They got only to Igloo-da-Houny, across Booth Sound. MacMillan made a last flight in one of the Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were...
...while he lunched and began passionately to repel the slander. Lawson listened with courtesy but without concentration to the man's stammered protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure...