Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James. When, at a fashionable garden party. Roland Smith meets Star-Actress Phoebe Friar, he realizes that she is the girl of whom he has lately dreamed? married to him, lying in a hospital, dying, dead. But there is nothing mortuary about Phoebe and the two strike up a friendship gradually deepening into love. At the height of her theatrical success. Phoebe suddenly falls ill. Roland is distressed; terrified when details of her illness remind him of his dream...
While some Californians have resented Herbert Fleishhacker's close friendship with Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., longtime Mayor of San Francisco, the connection enabled Mr. Fleishhacker to be appointed to the Board of Park Commissioners in 1920. He gave Golden Gate Park its famed open-air Fleishhacker Pool and donated a large zoo to the city. Favorite of his beasts there is a lion called "Herb," not for him but his powerfully-built son Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford football hero, formerly an employe of J. P. Morgan & Co. and now with Guaranty Trust. San Franciscans know that...
...student. Poetry, The Magazine of Verse, gave him its Young Poet's Prize, invited him to become associate editor. Boy in the Wind was the first selection of the Poetry Book Club, won the Chicago Foundation for Literature Prize. Among more personal prizes he counts the friendship of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...American student with his teachers, is contrasted with conditions existing in European schools. Mr. Burns points out that abroad the teacher is usually regarded as "untouchable," somewhat too majestic and sacred even to become acquainted with his students; in America thorough and sympathetic understanding of the student based on friendship is the first consideration of the master. This is said to be particularly true at Harvard...
...major part of an education. Facts are soon forgotten, but men and their ideals are long remembered. Mr. Burns is wrong in his analysis of the relation between the undergraduate and his instructor, but he is entirely right in assuming that such a relation should naturally be one of friendship...