Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than that. He was more than a leading citizen of Boston and of Massachusetts, he was a leading citizen of the whole country. He was called in to give invaluable advice on trying international problems. In spite of his eminence, his greatest attribute was his capacity for warm personal friendship and his willingness always to help in any situation...
...Encourage Friendship...
Sirs: Strange that TIME [Aug. 23], in its passion for nicknames would have missed one so colorful as that applied by Washington newshawks to Congressman Edward Eugene Cox of Georgia. For his friendship for peanuts, which TIME did mention, Congressman Cox is dubbed "Goober." There's very little pretense about "Goober." He's sincere and frequently speaks his mind. That's why he's popular with Washington correspondents. His suite in the House Building retains much of the flavor of the small town lawyer's office. Pants which are obviously in the midst of being...
...issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement to a beautiful friendship...
...Turk's head at the Fair, and what is more, my metaphors make sense. That is what counts." Careful Critic Sainte-Beuve: "Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head. That is all there is to it." Dispassionate observers, in spite of friendship, was just what the Goncourts were. Of their great friend Flaubert they report: "He works ten hours a day but is a great waster of time, forgetting himself in things he picks up to read, and constantly running away from the book he is writing. He hardly ever warms to his work before...