Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
...Tremont Street, blowing dresses and parasols, when suddenly the Devil saw the open church door. "They need me in there," quoth he; "wait here." So the Devil went inside the church and never came out again. And that is why to this day the Wind, faithful to its evil friend, still blusters around Brimstone Corner and Old Granary...
Also down to Havana, but only for a visit, went beauteous Rita Hayworth. Her friend, the Aly Khan, happened to come along in the same plane from Mexico City, but Rita said it was only a coincidence (he is still married to wife No. 1; her divorce from husband No. 2, Orson Welles, has just become final). Rita's trip, she announced, was merely "to see the sights and rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled...
...Attic. One, entitled Christina's World had cost Wyeth 3½ months of steady work. "I'd go up to Christina's attic every morning at 8:30," he recalled, "and not come down until supper time. Christina's a close friend of mine and crippled. Every other day she drags herself across the field from her house to visit the graves of her family. People might call that a gloomy thing to paint, but I don't look at it that...
Years later, Elsa became librarian at the Lake Junior High School in Denver, and began ordering all the books she could on U.S. folklore heroes. She also got a teacher friend of hers all steamed up about it. The teacher, Miss Julia Eriksen, had been raised on homegrown tall tales in a Colorado mining camp...