Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milner's own phrase, Mr. Gladstone was 'governed by his seraglio.' This foible had considerable political effect. One affair turned Mr. Gladstone from being a friend of Turkey and an enemy of Russia, as he was in the '50s, into being a friend of Russia and an enemy of Turkey...
...other canvas, called Bitter Fruit by an old friend of the subject, is the same Ann Cortlandt Smith as a great-grandmother. The ropes of pearls are luminous, the velvets urbane. The dame's expression is that of one who has found life...
...distinguished gentlemen invited to make that journey were: Count Alexander Skrzynski (pronounced Sh-trin-ski), Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came to the U. S. to deliver two addresses before the Institute on the policy and economics of Poland Count Antonio Cippico, famed Facist, Italian Senator and friend of Mussolini, to speak on Italy, the Mediterranean area Robert Masson, French banker who is the virtual head of the Credit Lyonnais and during the War performed much the same service for France that Robert Morris rendered revolutionary America; eloquent Dr. William E. Rappard, member of the Permanent Mandates Commission...
...Brandenburg, University of Wisconsin. Souvenir of the longest baseball throw ever made any collegian. Distance 384' 1". Date 1884. With the regard of his old friend and former member of the faculty...
Young Bullock had a friend named Gye who had some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...