Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be a merry week-end, and one likely to attract delegates from all parts of the world. The South Americans have laid by their lassos, the Germans are putting the finishing teaches on their masks of friendship, and the Bolsheviki have managed to run off an extra billion or so of rubles to buy themselves hair-cuts. The rest of the world makes its silent preparations as well; and it is announced that many a distinguished wardrobe will be pressed into service. From all appearances, the conference is preparing to fiddle while Rome burns...
...enough to send me with your letter of twenty-seventh December, has given me deep gratification; and I hope there may be some occasion upon which you can convey to the subscribers an expression of my appreciation. It is very delightful and heartening to be made aware of such friendship and confidence". (Signed) Woodrow Wilson...
...intersectional contests, the fact remains that such games can be of immense good. Publicity of the right sort does no harm. In the case of colleges more publicity is gained through football than through any other single means. As international sport events have proved their worth in furthering friendship between countries, so intersectional games should foster a finer and more sympathetic understanding among the colleges of the country. Harvard has been slow to take advantage of this. The fact that we shall become acquainted in 1922 with nine teams from nine states gives the new schedule a touch...
...bier covered with flowers; a distinguished minister conducted the funeral services, and a notable cortege followed his casket to the cemetery. One wreath, proclaimed as costing $250, bore a written tribute to the desperado's alleged bravery displayed while engaged in banditry, and railed at the betrayal of his friendship by his executioner...
...regard to the first of these principles Dr. Cabot emphasized the importance of friendship. He drew an analogy between people we dislike and people we don't know, asserting that too many of our prejudices against those about us are due to ignorance of their character. "It is normal to like people", he said, "and if we conceive an instinctive prejudice against every stranger it is a sure sigh of an abnormal or diseased mentality...