Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
...year-old twin sons of Gen. Charles Henry Montgomerie y Agramonte, heard that their father had celebrated his 98th birthday on the porch of his home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean...
...play which these persons witnessed with enthusiasm was plainly designed less as a model of intelligent drama than as a means of bringing their old friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that...
...request of a friend of mine, a sporting editor of a Chicago paper," De Voto began, "I agreed to write an article on football. In this I mentioned the physiological fact that excitement causes adrenalin to flow through the veins of the athletes, deadening pain, supposing this to be a commonly known fact. Whereupon a Des Moines writer accused me of libel, saying that I had falsely accused Conference coaches of doping their...
...appreciation and understanding of educational values, that is lacking here. The American student does not want to become educated except as that result may be effected through a process in which he plays a purely passive part. A German, for instance, is surprised to find that his American friend has passed up opportunities to speak German with acquaintances at home who are fluent in the language. The American attempts, on the other hand, to learn German or French through mere exposure to a series of courses in them. When at the end of several years he is still a wretched...