Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second year, although I did the first. The second surprise was to observe the absence from the list of one of my closest friends while in College, a man who has made a great success, who lives at a great distance from me, but with whom my College friendship has been kept alive through correspondence and very occasional personal meetings. In this case our relations are such that I would not hesitate for one moment to write to him, nor would he have the least objection to my doing so, in the interest of the Fund, frankly stating that...
...Moines, Iowa; it led her to what she called "sleuthing," in Chicago; when this became tiresome, she wobbled off to New Orleans and got a job as a detective. While "sleuthing," in New Orleans cabarets, she met several sailors. Inspired already with her calamitous yearnings, she cultivated their friendship. Then one early morning, clad in a uniform which she had borrowed from one of them by saying she wanted it for a masquerade party, rowdy Ramilda sneaked onto the Sands and hid herself and suitcase in the torpedo room. There, several days later, she was discovered; first by a sailor...
...Liberty is being crucified at our very door, and the United States looks on with perfect indifference. Despotism seems to have become popular amongst us. Are we not sending endless goodwill parties to Mexico? Are we not courting the friendship and favor of the very men whose hands are simply dripping with the blood of their innocent victims? . . . The ominous silence of the American press and pulpit is not understandable...
...German people have always been fond of chasing will of the wisps, but with great care to been both feet out of the marsh. Disarmed Germany has everything to gain from world peace and world disarmament, commercial Germany has everything to gain by reacquiring the world's friendship. The way was long from the tales of grue some that made the from pages of 1918 hideous is the acclaim that the Bremen's heroine crew has won in 1928. Whatever Germany's time in doffing her cuirass and carrying a dove on her wrist, she has succeeded beyond cavil...
Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...