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Word: friend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alma mater of Florence Trumbull, good friend of John Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary of War and in June got mentioned for the Vice Presidency. Another (Oh. shrewd Mr. Good) is Farmer Lowden's good friend, James G. Oglesby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Midlands | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"), author and publicist, biographer of Woodrow Wilson. Reason: "Candid, progressive, humane." Nonpartisan, a friend of both Nominees, Mr. Baker kept both their pictures on his study wall until he made up his mind. Last week he removed the Hoover picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...story is that of Buddy Miles, an apparently pure in body−if not in spirit−miss who is prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby spoil Miller's impending amour, Miller strangles his ex-mistress. Although the piece is called Night Hostess the principal role is that of Chris Miller, energetically, realistically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Princess d'Orobelli (American heiress married to an impoverished title) was his beloved friend. But he had rebuffed her passionate love 30 years before, and she had wandered restlessly ever since from one lover to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juxtaposition | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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