Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drinking bouts which lasted from early morn till evening. Like many college students, proud of their ability in classroom foreign languages, a few were anxious to show their knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made...
...environment, his social heritage. The traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected. ¶ Humanism also rejects cosmic and supernatural "guarantees." The Humanist eschews theism, deism, modernism, "new thought'' and instead of feeling religious emotions concentrates on human life-la- bor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation. ¶Humanism is for "a socialized and co-operative economic order-a shared life in a shared world." Its adherents say that it will: "Affirm life rather than deny it ... seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it ... establish the conditions of a satisfactory life...
...friendship with Lucy Stone kept Dr. Blackwell from speaking at the dedication of the hospital, with "modern conveniences of gas and baths," which the original Infirmary soon acquired. Sponsors feared that Dr. Blackwell "might speak like a Woman's Rights woman." That was in 1857. When an early patient died of appendicitis, a mob tried to wreck the hospital because it was "an institution of some cranky women who killed people with cold water...
...Englishman in the Chinese Government Service, had a premonition that he would marry her. He did, and the rest of her book describes chiefly her life in the foreign settlements of Nanking, Canton, Tientsin. All through China's recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng-lin: "It is an achievement for a talkative woman to have...
...American people go to no trouble to inform themselves. We must place under their eyes some simple truths. ... An American may honestly ruin his best friend just to prove he is the stronger, then offer him his hand and help him to arise. Friendship has nothing to do with business. . . . The American people are ignorant of their own history. They must not be expected to know French history...