Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another part of his speech, the Air Secretary referred to "the greatest air power, our old friend, France; and no sane Englishman or Frenchman now dreams of strained relations between the two countries." In another passage, he continued...
...least, that was the thought uppermost in my mind last Saturday while sitting in my club, reading TIME. Seeing the magazine and knowing it to be a particular pet of mine, a friend (let us call him Peter Perkins, for short) came over to me and expostulated. He accused you gentlemen, the editors, of "throwing mud at our President." He admitted that it was subtle stuff-mud that did not stain your hands, but which made the President to look foolish...
...were in hot dispute when our friend (James Jenkins for short) came into the fray. I bade him read carefully the whole article and then tell us whether or not he thought it unbiased. All three of us voted for Calvin Coolidge last November. We awaited Jenkins' opinion somewhat avidly. PERKINS: "Well, do you call that unbiased?" JENKINS: "I do not." 1 : "Then I lose. You both agree that it is undignified." JENKINS: "Not undignified, but not unbiased, either. A blarney article. I'm after thinking it a lot of soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge...
Borglum's friends spoke loud for him. Said William J. Robinson, Manhattan art dealer, friend of Borglum: "This is largely a Ku Klux Klan matter. Borglum attacked Dr. Evans, so called Imperial Wizard, very bitterly, and said the latter was sowing hate and discord in the world while he, Borglum, was working to unite peoples. . . . Borglum was not trying to be tactful. . . . Well, Gutzon isn't diplomatic. He's a steam engine in pants. He's a genius. ... If he never does another stroke of work on Stone Mountain, he has to his credit something greater...
...family of his own! His family numbers by the hundreds, if not the thousands a huge, ever-young family of boys, the pick of the land, loyal and affectionate to the godfather of their minds and the friend of their youth. Uncle Dudley in the Boston Globe...