Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisiana's 72-year-old Senator John H. Overton-who had refused to back Earl in the election-died in Bethesda Naval Hospital. His vacant Senate seat gave the Longs an easy and unexpected means of strengthening their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance of election...
...Pratt [TIME, May 3], and your quote from my Humanist as Hero; the Life of Sir Thomas More to substantiate what you previously wrote about More's meat-eating habits, let me add that what Erasmus says comes from a very long and detailed letter about his closest friend...
...Detroit, Mrs. Harold S. Howe got a divorce when she complained that her husband proposed to decide between her and his girl friend by drawing cards, but didn't have nerve enough to cut the deck...
...destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...
Just in case Miss Jokiel hadn't been scared enough, Anthony had persuaded the smartest friend he knew to take the exam in his place (the smart...