Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last spring Elihu Root, grey Elder Statesman of U. S. diplomacy, good friend of Herbert Hoover, went to Geneva?quite unofficially?and began with foreign diplomats to draw up another set of reservations which would suit both them and the U.S. Last week more than 40 nations had approved the Root formula (see p. 26). So Henry Lewis Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, announced that he had "carefully examined" the new reservations and "satisfied" himself that they would protect...
...racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs a rider in the coming steeplechase. From California comes Edward Everett Horton to visit. He loves the daughter of the house, Patsy Ruth Miller, who can love only horsey men. Timid, sedentary, Horton is no jockey, but a mutual friend tells Patsy Ruth that Horton is a famed steeplechaser. Her love for him is, of course, immediate. Horton then sustains five reels of comic discomfiture. Valiant though protesting, he attempts to ride the Hottentot, connives darkly with the butler to get rid of the beast. But then...
Louis Arico, barber to most of Tammany Hall, was awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than...
...barber shop in his agency office. Every morning he seats himself in a Koch barber chair and is shaved so close that he nearly bleeds. He always tips the barber $1. Mr. Lasker winters in a stucco house next door to Mr. Hertz's. President Harding was his good friend. For a time (1921-23) he ran the U. S. Shipping Board...
...great political friend of Kansas farmers is slim, grey-haired Senator Arthur Capper. This friendship he cultivates through Capper Publications, including the Topeka Daily Capital, third largest newspaper in Kansas (circulation 42.915)*, and Capper's Weekly, mighty farmpaper (circulation 369,120). Last week The Capital celebrated its 50th anniversary with a monster Golden Jubilee edition containing 164 pages, about 250,000 words...