Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guard stated that students as a whole are about as honest as the test of the 50,000 people that pass through the station each day. "If they haven't the necessary ten cents they generally manage to borrow it from, some friend," he said...
Besides these books containing Coleridge's manuscript notes, Mr. Perkins' gift makes the Harvard collection of first editions of his important writings very nearly complete. Among these is a file comprising all the issues of: "The Friend; a Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day. Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of Grasmere, Westmorland." These papers, dating from June 1, 1809, to March 16, 1810, are of the utmost rarity, and of the greatest importance to any student of English literature at that period...
...been welcomed by a different host- a taller man of eloquent tongue, equally slender, with face even more austere, with clear-some said cold- eyes. The entering guest paused only a moment on the threshold. Then Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the one-time War Industries Board, close friend of Woodrow Wilson, entered to dine with Calvin Coolidge and presumably to discuss farm problems...
...friend and myself motored to New Haven in the morning and parked in a field near the Bowl, along with several hundred others. After the game, and soaked to the skin, we anticipated trouble in getting out. Our fears were justified, for we had scarcely moved a few hundred feet when we were stuck in the mud--with dozens of cars nearby in the same predicament. We struggled, and cursed,--got out in the mud and rain and secured two helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles...
...General Balbo, Premier Benito has such a friend. Oft and again some hothead will call Benito out for one thing or another. Last week it was General Peppino Garibaldi, fiery little grandson of the Liberator. Rebuked for criticizing the conduct of the National Militia on Austrian Armistice Day (Oct. 31), Peppino demanded satisfaction of the Militia's chief. But all Peppino got for his pains was the prompt acceptance of Balbo...