Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast their sinister menace over the traffic box in Harvard Square night before last. The unseen peril came in the from of a threatening missive from "Feagan's gang" delivered by a "tool" in the guise of a Cambridge schoolgirl. One of the city's most beloved officers, the friend of children and Harvard Square merchants, was informed point-blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only to a Harvard student riot scare. Photographic copies...
...Anyone who can even faintly remember the political campaigns of the post-war period with their turgid oratory and their violent editorials is aware that hatred of the South was the chief political asset of most successful candidates. The ferocious denunciation of every Democrat as a friend of rebels, the continued waving of the bloody shirt, the cartoons of Thomas H. Nast, the editorials of Petroleum V. Nasby all indicate as clearly as anything could that the reconstruction policy was actuated more by a desire to punish the South than by a desire to benefit the negro. Very naturally such...
...fairy godmother to slip round millions into her hands every other month. Yet in spite of this she seems to get on pretty well, staying near the head of the procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found in the end. . . . We do not expect a new gymnasium for some time to come, but it is at least right to give people a chance; to let our graduates and friends see that Harvard has depended and will always depend upon them...
...great kidder. I tell right up what I think about things. Sure I do. Like the other day. . . . well, tell that guy he can go to some other table if he doesn't like it. Tell him he can go to some. . . .I was telling my friend you can go to some other table if you don't like this...
...late Meyer Guggenheim started a smelter in Colorado for his seven sons. In the last three and a half years, however, Daniel Guggenheim has made his name consonant with aeronautical promotion. First he gave $500,000 to New York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aviation. His active son Harry F. Guggenheim is good president there.** Last week he let it be known that he had sent a $480,000 gift to Chile. The only...