Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of a compromise, for while he was not the fastest of the "dark horses," he was at least "dark" (see below). In Kansas City he was sure to see more friends than frustrators. On the farm issue he had voted for the farmers, then obeyed his President. Friendship and obedience make good bedfellows for ambition. And after the Presidency, after all, there is the Vice-Presidency...
...signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles of honor and morality by not only directing and manipulating a large amount of contraband merchandise but also by using my name in telegraphic orders to protect such merchandise and to assure himself of immunity...
Soon after 5 o'clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly...
...many prizes and fellowships offering a trip to Europe as the solid flesh to accompany the more nebulous haze of distinction lent by them, the larger part are a direct result of war-time and early post-war idealism. In those days of friendship and hatred, hope and vindictiveness, the idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter...
...that is being to some extent replaced. The concession to the spirit of 1918 in omitting the countries recently enemies of the United States needs no longer to be made, and the number of American students at present in Germany and Austria is an agreeable proof that the international friendship of this movement is no longer one-sided...