Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fatheads like Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse (in TIME, June 13), who break out every once in a while with such profound absurdities, that retard closest friendship between the two English speaking nations...
...Poincaré is so tired of "Locarno-talk" that he had to get out of his system what he considers the unvarnished truth about France and Germany. He said: "In our long and magnificent history our country every time it has been victorious has spontaneously offered the hand of friendship to the conquered. But there has always been one condition, and that was that the vanquished should not seek to contest the victory proclaimed. . . . "If immediately after her defeat Germany had openly disavowed the Government and military caste which led her into the war ... if she had not contested against...
...more than usual, called the boy "our ambassador without portfolio"; pinned on his coat lapel the Distinguished Flying Cross; gave him his commission of Colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps. The boy replied with seven short sentences, keeping his promise to Europe by delivering a message of friendship...
...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
...George. Said the letter, in part: "Great and good friend: "I have conferred the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon Mr. William Phillips, a distinguished citizen of the United States. . . . He is well informed of the desire of this government to cultivate to the fullest extent the friendship . . . between Your Majesty's Dominion of Canada and this country...