Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsman Barnet Nover this week brought off the dream assignment of every capital reporter: the first exclusive interview with President Harry Truman. An old friend of the President's, Nover is also the new Washington bureau chief of the Denver Post...
...good friend, disciple and political heir of Gandhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, spoke to the nation on the radio, in quivering voice: "Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere...
...wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same time, all shelling peas. It was also in Fay House that the Rev. Samuel Gilman, a friend of Fay's, wrote the words of "Fair Harvard" for the College's 200th anniversary...
...Harvard has lost one of its most loyal sons. His advise as an Overseer was always sound, his generosity as an alumnus unbounded. As a thoughtful public citizen his country's interest often commanded his judgment, which was tempered by long experience in foreign affairs. As a Harvard man, friend, and public official, I shall miss him. His family has my deep sympathy...
...Mexico City's Reforma Hotel, one day, a frail little man in faded khaki, his shirt held together with a cheap gold pin, presented to Huston a card: Hal Croves, Translator. Traven, Croves explained, couldn't come; but as Traven's old friend and translator, he, Croves, knew the author and his work better even than Traven himself did. Huston hired Croves at $150 a week as technical adviser. By the time Croves had done his job and disappeared, Huston was pretty certain that uneasy little Mr. Croves was Traven himself...