Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement-by-rumor to be the first woman to serve...
...office is part of a suite occupied by William R. English, of the Prudence Co. (mortgages and building loans). An old friend of the onetime Governor, Mr. English has frequently turned these offices over to him for conferences, for preparation of speeches, for other occasions demanding labor or solitude. The room occupied by Mr. Smith is on the corner facing his former suite in the Biltmore Hotel. The ceiling is of Spanish stucco, the walls, panelled in mission oak, are decorated with stuffed animal heads. *Mr. Cohen whom newspaper men last week certainly referred to as an office boy, figured...
...educated at Yale and at the patrician Magdalen College, Oxford. The young headmaster of the cathedral's choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
...along with men, because there are so few girls who give of themselves, if you know what I mean. I mean, there are so few girls who really give of themselves. And as a result they never have any men that they can really call friends. From the time I reached the age, if you know what I mean, I always wanted men to be my friends. To be completely the woman, as that Lampoon boy said, and yet to have men friends. And in time, I suppose, one of them would be "best friend" as I call...
...Author has been seeing prisons from within for 25 years. He was president of the National Wardens' Association in 1922. Many a convict counts him a great & good friend. He works in shirtsleeves when going through a batch of Sing Sing statistics. Usually mild mannered, he becomes for short periods, about a dozen times a year, nervous,, irritable, troubled with insomnia...