Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Professor Dobie that the coyote is one of the most interesting of animals. He is a natural as a "story-maker." A friend of mine in Colorado saw a coyote trot boldly into his farmyard in broad daylight, whereupon his big collie gave chase, was ambushed by two accomplices of the decoy, and killed by the three of them within 200 yards of the house...
Portia Faces Life. In St. Louis, Mrs. Lillian A. Shenker, serving her first day as provisional judge in City Court, explained why she had fined a man $50 for beating his wife but had dismissed the case of another man charged with cuffing his girl friend: "The wife . . . has to live with [her husband] and can't escape . . . but the other man had beaten his girl before and experience should have taught her what to expect...
...days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left...
Harold Burton, ex-mayor of Cleveland, ex-Senator from Ohio, the lone Republican, a close friend of Harry Truman who appointed him. An amiable man, outpaced by his hard-running colleagues, generally regarded as the least effective justice on the court...
...bought in a pawnshop, put it in a suitcase, took all the money she had in the world ($85) out of the bank, and booked a room for three days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat the Cubs 9-2. Eddie got a hit and Ruth was happy. Ruth went back...