Word: friend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred, he norrowed ten dollars from a friend and left early the next morning. In Minea, New York, on Wednesday, he was arrested by railroad police. Before a justice of the peace be paid a two dollar fine and promised that he would steal no more rides...
Acting is a comparatively new experience for him; since college he has spent most of his time directing, Woolley remarked. Ten years ago he directed Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" in Boston. Cole Porter was his best friend at Yale, and Bob Benchley his side-kick while at Harvard...
...years ago, when Sibelius' close friend, aged Finnish Conductor Robert Kajanus, died, another prominent Finnish conductor, Georg Schneevoigt, got a chance to rummage in Conductor Kajanus' attic in Helsinki. There he found the missing manuscripts: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens, and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela. Overjoyed, Conductor Schneevoigt got permission to perform them at Finland's 1934 Kalevala Festival. Last week, in an all-Sibelius concert by the NBC Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Schneevoigt gave U. S. listeners their first chance to hear the Tuonelese swan's long-lost cronies...
...cannot meet and talk, my friend...
...Rose in the book is a real person: Rose Lucy Renee Anne d'Aiguy, nine years old a neighbor and friend of Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says...