Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notably, his biographer finds, Wagner was unjust to Conductor Lachner, to Robert von Hornstein, his friend, to his first wife Minna, to all hostile critics. His disposition was tempestuous, overbearing; he never paid his bills; not merely asked, but demanded loans of his friends as a condition of continued friendship; was enraged at Minna for her imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific?from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident...
...have representatives of every nation on the face of the globe meet together in athletic rivalry is a splendid idea, and if firmer friendships and better understandings spring up, well and good. But to say that the Games are promoted chiefly for the purpose of cementing friendship is to mistake effect for cause, and put the cart before the horse. The Games are for sport, not for diplomacy. But because they were not so considered, when they failed to be what they were not, and never intended to be, that failure was doubly emphasized in the eyes of those...
There were, doubtless, other considerations that moved him to stand for the office. The quiet, conservative, impartial Speaker had earned the friendship of the silent President. In 1920, it was the Speaker who placed Calvin Coolidge in nomination for President of the U. S. Since Mr. Coolidge's actual accession to the Presidency, Mr. Gillett has supported him consistently and quietly. There was, more than once, evidence that the Speaker of the House was more in accord with the President's views than the senior Senator, Lodge from Massachusetts-the Republican floor leader in the Senate...
...considered expedition to a bedroom occupied by Julie and her wealthy friend, Alice Carey, Alan and his mother left Findellen. Julie was relieved. She began to grow up, still under the devoted guidance of her father. Her friendship for Alice Carey continued. An almost hysterical love sprang up between her and old Martha Perrin, mistress of her school...
...disagreeable diplomatic incident has been turned by the State Department into an occasion for cementing the friendship between the United States and Persia. The murder of Vice-Consul Imbrie for photographing a native shrine has been atoned for by the execution of the malefactors and by the payment of an indemnity to Mr. Imbrie's widow; the additional indemnity, to recompense the United States government for sending a warship to bring home his remains, it is planned, will be devoted to the education of Persian students in American universities...