Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With candor, real or assumed, Hitler said of Hindenburg: "After many battles he finally granted me his gracious friendship and thus founded a relationship which made me happy and was of the greatest help to the nation...
Thurber struck up a friendship with a quarter-miler named Elliott Nugent, who persuaded him to get a haircut and stop wearing funny clothes. Thurber drifted into newspaper work, was hired from the New York Evening Post by Editor Ross in 1927. A poor judge of men, Ross tried to make Thurber into a managing editor, for months kept him from writing a line. Sad, vague "Andy" White took instantly to sad, vague James Thurber. He salvaged Thurber's neurotic, amorphous scratchpad drawings from the waste baskets by the thousands, finally bulldozed scornful Editor Ross into printing them. Today...
...fashionable dress shop, counted her pennies, cultivated her tongue, studied shorthand and typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope...
...Jesuits be interested in buying at a low price? No, said Father Sloctemyer. But learning that Mr. Ballard wished to have his hotel maintained intact, as a landmark, the Jesuit promised to help him try to dispose of it. Months passed and the business association between the two became friendship. Last week came announcement that persuasive Father Sloctemyer had obtained hotel, spa and grounds as outright gift, to be run as an affiliate of Loyola University (Chicago) under the name of West Baden College...
...attitude of mind caused him in 1912 to become instantly a friend of that reforming politician, Woodrow Wilson. Five years later when Baruch was accused of using that friendship to make his killing in Steel. Congressional questioning showed a new side of him. Reading between the lines of utterances by Germany's von Bethmann-Hollweg and Britain's Lloyd George - reading matter for the whole world -he had almost alone foreseen developments, made his huge profit without inside information from the White House. The dates of his operations confirmed his claim...