Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Alger. Tall, urbane Dean Acheson was well prepared. Settling back in the witness chair, impeccably correct in a double-breasted grey suit, he began: "I have waited a long time to answer this, and I want to answer in detail. As a preliminary I would like to state that my friendship is not easily given and is not easily withdrawn...
...University awarded him an honorary A.M. degree in 1931 with the citation, "A tried friend to his University, a benefactor, generous and retiring." In 1942 he received the third Alumni Association Medal for outstanding service to Harvard...
...table in the center of the room. Carefully following the agreed formula, he laid out the things he had brought-five potatoes here, a quarter-pound of tea in the center, a handful of raisins to the left. Then the visitor nervously repeated the words of the code: "Your friend Sasha asked me to pay you my respects and to thank you for your kindness to his mother." The Russian quickly gave the set reply of recognition and the two shook hands...
Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
After his friend King Ludwig committed suicide, Rudolph longed to do the same. He pored over newspaper reports of suicide, discussed the subject endlessly with his friends. But the turning point in his miserable, pompous life came when he heard that the daughter of a cantor, out of love for him, had stood outside his window to see him, and died of exposure. Fascinated by the notion that he might have died in her arms, Rudolph-begged an army officer to perform a double suicide with him. When the officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress...