Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to applaud the work of the several players responsible for the undeniable success of the performance. We lack superlatives and they are dangerous things to fool with, but it is not too much to say that most of the parts could not have been better done. Our old friend Bernard Yedell was perfect as the doctor, and Houston Richards was inimitable as the idea-istic Chub. Miss Hitz., the owner of the "ankle", was at her best, though with not much to do, and Uncle George from Fargo was typical of what most of us think a middle western...
...Arbor, Mich., one Dr. John Sundwall, Health Officer, warned against handshaking, declared that disease lurks in friendly salutations, that handshakers are purveyors of death, described how secretions of the nose and mouth pass to the hands. Said he: "The average man's hands are contaminated with these secretions. A man who has the infection and whose hands are contaminated meets and shakes hands with a friend. Shortly after, the other's fingers go to his mouth. The route of transmission is completed...
...petals of pink fondant marked the occasion; no 92 candles shone in the old man's eyes, no speeches were made, no toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect the tele phone, was a member of his faculty. This old man is Dr. William Fairfield Warren, President Emeritus of Boston University...
...Fencing may hurt the pride, it cannot black the eye. And you can play it with your friends. You box your friend. He hits you on the ear. He says, 'So sorry, I didn't mean--' And you are mad. You say, "Oh, quite all right.' But you hit him on the nose your first chance...
...fencing there is none of that. You see your friend's weakness. You say, 'You will fence with me, Monsieur?' And then he gets a touch, two. Your pride is hurt? Never mind. Tomorrow you can take a lesson. Next day you may beat him. You are not mad: you are not hurt...