Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Badoglio was marked for death because his friendship for the royal family would have caused the plotters special difficulty...
...besides the physical and mental attractions and rewards, there are yet deeper ones, lying in the really intimate associations involved, first with nature, second with men. In nature, as in life, satisfaction comes not from acquaintance but from friendships, and friendship is predicated upon time. One can become acquainted with many places and many people in this rapid world and in exactly the same way with scores of mountains and miles of trail, but with the satisfaction only, of numbers and of mileage. A colleague of mine used to say, "I go to a different place-every summer and exhaust...
Such a division of China would of course arouse U.S. opposition as contravening the Washington treaties. Moreover the Cantonese displayed last week a wise reluctance toward accepting British overtures. Russia has backed Canton till now; and the friendship of the British Lion must not be bought by incurring the displeasure of the Russian Bear. The aim of the Cantonese is to free China from bondage to the Powers, and their prudent leaders do not welcome too much British "protection...
...slow and resisted. Few members of the Faculty have voted against you more times than I. But sympathy was growing through the years when our radical difference of temper was becoming plain. Smoothly and with no violent change I passed through distrust, tolerance, respect, admiration, liking, into the hearty friendship--I might say the love--which makes it a delight to work with you now, whether in opposition or alliance, Probably we shall always approach subjects from opposite sides. You began in chemistry, I in theology. But nothing can touch my deep affection for you or my gratitude...
...born in Chicago 47 years ago (he always knows what he is writing about). He worked on a Manhattan newspaper, married and soon set out to be his own literary boss. Painstaking and deliberate, he fixed upon Author Booth Tarkington as an object for deep admiration and their subsequent friendship had much to do with the Streets' removal to Princeton when it came time for their son to attend college. There, pensively fingering cigars, graciously suffering undergraduate interruptions, Julian Street produced his famed Rita Coventry and the O. Henry Memorial Prize story for 1925, Mr. Bisbee's Princess...