Word: friends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when it was found that the Coolidge addresses, when dealing with geography and other indis- putable facts, followed with a striking literalness the text of the International Encyclopaedia. Besides, Mr. Coolidge had a certain vanity about his literary style which he considered inimitable. Lobby gossip went out through Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns or Private Secretary Edward Clarke not through Mr. Crawford...
...second day of the trial, Saint Gandhi was allowed to remain away from court. Absent, he was fined one rupee (36¢) which his lawyer refused to pay. As always happens when the Mahatma is fined?and invariably refuses to pay?an unidentified "friend" stepped briskly up and laid down the requisite rupee...
...village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little black box in his hand. Diffidently, Earl Fred took the little box from the butler, and the patient Trimmers sighed with relief. Their friend was officially installed Lord of the Manor...
Technique of blood transfusion has enabled many an individual to help a sick or injured friend. It has also created a traffic in blood. Blood brokers organize professional donors and supply them to hospitals. The friendless patient pays $50 a pint for blood. Brokers exact 20% of that as commission. Manhattan has about 2,000 donors, half of them professionals, half occasionals (impoverished people, thrill seekers). One Thomas Kane, deckhand, after giving blood 100 times in 15 years, ''retired'' last week. He boasts himself the record holder and now considers selling patches of his skin...
...hundred years ago an Oxford student wrote to a friend at Cambridge suggesting a boat race between the two universities. Came the answer: "Your impudence is unparalleled. The sufficiently candid manner in which you talk of 'lasting us out' (!!!) amuses me so much that I am ready to die of laughing. . . ." So the first Oxford-Cambridge race was arranged...