Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon rising every morning," continues the Princess, "I go immediately to help my brother with his fairly bulky correspondence. [Both are fluent in all the principal European tongues.] .... We partake of a light breakfast, and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game such as tennis or ride horseback. An hour during the afternoon is devoted to official visits.... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me with few intimates...
...have taken this job ... to help preserve high-class football as it is played in colleges . . . a clean, red-blooded sport . . . great character-builder...
...were what M. Clavier's tall, slow comrade, Jacob Islamoff, 28, was inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft...
...prominence again. The devotees of these cults frequently massage tumors in order to drive the lump away. In this they are often too successful. Patients now come into our hospitals with extraordinary distribution of tumor cells following such massage and manipulation. The victims are practically all of them beyond help, owing to the extensive distribution about the body of the embolic particles."-Francis Carter Wood of Manhattan...
...pints of whiskey, ears for the rumble of life. His eyes are humorous, quick, lonely. He was born in a slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding he has made his way to where you find him with help from no man. He is the dream of all his countrymen when he reaches a high place, a tornado of an Irishman to whom morals count less than a wart on a deacon's ankle. He has a fist of iron, a heart of gold, imagination...