Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the actor's mission is not merely to amuse and instruct the populace from the stage. He has a broader conception of the actor's duties and declares that the acting profession night well mingle with the common people and bring happiness and pleasure to them by supplying friendship to the friendless, and love to those without lovers...
...Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young man) is always playing games or motoring...
Some two score Septembers ago Midshipman Samuel S. Robison and Midshipman Charles P. Hughes were classmates and roommates at the Naval Academy. Graduating, they married sisters. For 40 years their friendship has been unbroken and their careers strikingly parallel. During the war each received a decoration for "exceptionally meritorious services." At present they rank 17 and 18 on the list of Naval officers...
...Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many of these)-she wrote the book. Of which act, says she: "I couldn't keep up with myself-it was glorious ... I really felt drunk." She had published two books previously. A Pocketful of Poses and Semi-Attached...
Liberia. My mission in this, my first visit to America, is to endeavor to cement the friendship between the two countries...