Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are more than the potentialities of memory to make Harvard rejoice afresh in this Yale game. For the renewing of the stout rivalry of friendship Harvard has never had worthier protagonists than the University football team of this year. Demanding nothing of them, Harvard yet sends her team onto the field in a complete confidence that they will give the hard-driving best of which they have already proved themselves capable...
...seemed. He asserted stoutly that the Smith candidacy had anything but weakened the party nationally-look at that popular vote! He might have gone on-but he didn't-to point out that the Smith power, appeal and tradition were continued in him by every token-the long friendship, the nominating speeches, the direct bestowal of New York's Governorship. He might have suggested, as others did, that in him the Smith power might be liberated from the stigima of Roman Catholicism, Tammany, social ineligibility, dripping-wetness...
...advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...
Somewhat over-conscious of the earlier criticism, the present volumes are at pains to re-establish the (indubitably) important part House played, and also to emphasize House's deep admiration for Wilson's genius, even after their close friendship had waned. Above all, the papers are invaluable as historical source material, ranking with Ambassador Page's Letters, and the Wilson papers Ray Stannard Baker is editing. Selected, arranged, and linked by Professor Seymour's lucid comment, the Intimate Papers are intensely interesting, indispensable to any adequate understanding of War burdens, post-War intrigues...
...greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...