Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtaining a divorce from his first wife, has been married by the British Consul to an idealistic ingenue of an Irish girl named Helen, who has nursed him through a four years' illness. The bibulous Consul Cheyne, his wife Gabrialle, an unscrupulous French ex-harlot, Helen's Dutch friend, warm sensuous Jenny van Haaren who struggles--at intervals--against her infatuation for Gerald, and Hilary Bentinck, the worldly-wise though disillusioned lawyer who has handled the divorce, comprise the members of the party...
...Rochester Alfred E. Smith arrived from the West, took charge of the Democratic convention. Several times he talked over long distance wires to Warm Springs, Georgia, where his good friend and presidential nominator Franklin Delano Roosevelt was mending his health. Roosevelt for Governor seemed necessary for Democratic success in New York, perhaps in the nation. But on advice of physicians Mr. Roosevelt had refused to run. Over the telephone the voice of the Happy Warrior pleaded again and again. Finally the Happy Warrior's great and good friend consented to run for Governor. New York Democracy was jubilant. Royal...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, returned to his congregation on the Minnckahda. Like his good friend, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin (see p. 36), he announced that he would vote for Herbert Clark Hoover, and added, "I shall not make my pulpit a political platform...
Sturdy, English, loyal Stanley Baldwin said of his sick friend: "I want to pay the highest tribute to my colleague, Sir Austen Chamberlain. The whole country and all Europe realize the devotion, skill and patience with which he has handled our foreign affairs for four years. With health renewed, I hope he will handle them four years more. . . . A great part of Europe's progress toward peace is due to his labors, and in those labors he has nearly worn himself...
William J. Donovan, assistant to U. S. Attorney General Sargent and intimate friend of Nominee Hoover, hastened to the White House to tell President Coolidge the news so good to U. S. businessmen, chemists, doctors...