Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorney General in President Coolidge's cabinet is John Garibaldi Sargent, huge, rustic, wise friend and onetime neighbor of Mr. Coolidge in Vermont. His first assistant is kinetic Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, who last week whisked away from magic Washington to New Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction...
Further, she informed John Blymyer that the only way in which he could break the charm that made him sickly, that made his pigs die, that made sweat break out on his face in the dead of night, was to steal from Rehmeyer his book, The Long Lost Friend, or else get a lock of his hair and bury it eight feet underground. John Blymyer got two young fellows, John Curry and Wilbert Hess; Rehmeyer had hexed them too, he said. The three of them went down to Rehmeyer's farmhouse one night in the autumn to get the book...
...subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with a man. He is Harry Easter, office manager. He tries to kiss Rose, but fails. He propositions her; she is too beautiful, too clever for office work. He has a friend who will get her on Broadway. All she has to do is leave home and be available for Mr. Easter at a little apartment he will get for her. She desists. He leaves...
...France and the rights to her book, My Life. Her will was filed last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin. In case of simultaneous death, then such property to go to my brother...
...oaken door of the Franciscan monastery at Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...