Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry" to all. Third principle of Rotary is "that every member should be addressed preferably by his first name or a nickname in some manner to indicate the close, intimate friendship among Rotarians...
...enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money with which to get a start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with gusto and out of which...
...Henry Lewes, the lifelong lover and helper of the woman of genius, also has Miss Haldane's sympathy--"he did for George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...
...quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book an absolutely unfathomable creature, a gracile dryad, a tropic faun--a maggot. In short, he is a masterpiece...
...Some common basis of interest"--varieties of which the Report cites as musical, journalistic, dramatic, is an excellent manner in which to introduce men to each other, but it does not constitute the basis of a lasting friendship. Cliques are as common in, organizations devoted to music, dramatics etc, as in any gathering of men--not excepting the present clubs themselves...