Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John G. Mott, of Los Angeles, California, a personal friend of President-elect Hoover's was one of the contestants...
...think we might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...enemy of Cupid!" cried he last week. "I am the friend of Cupid- I give him another chance...
...delegation of foreign hotel men visited the Commodore. Why not, thought Mr. Bowman, show them a typical U. S. spectacle? So he put up a tent in the Grand Ballroom of the Commodore, covered the floor with sawdust, secured sideshow freaks and wild animals from his circus friend John Ringling. When the delegation arrived, it walked into a genuine circus, complete even to an elephant which the Commodore's freight elevator had safely transported...
Romanticist: But you forget that the terrific outlay on gown of the modern girl is, in the long run, more than equivalent to the sums which the boy friend spends...