Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Being now refugees from Russia and having as my only hope the undeniable proof of my close relationship to Casimir Pulaski, which I beg to enclose herewith, I take the liberty of applying to your Excellency with the most entreating prayer to consider whether I may not receive from your Government some material compensation for the services rendered to the American nation during its glorious struggle for independence by my ancestor, Casimir Pulaski...
FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
According to Die Kreus Zeitung (most reactionary newspaper in Germany), the ex-Kaiser has founded an association of scientists to investigate the relationship between Greek and Oriental cultures...
...next year. The project is still in an experimental stage, having been first put into effect a very few years ago. Its success has been so evident to members of the Faculty and to undergraduates that the new Committee will make efforts to bring the adviser into closer relationship with his advisees. Among the projected changes is a system of regular hours to be kept by the adviser in which to meet his wards, as well as an attempt to make such meetings more frequent and more informal...
...objection to a close relationship with the League valid. It is an advisory relationship solely. Furthermore, the League is not the horrible militaristic monster Senator Borah has pictured it to be. It has accomplished far more for the good of the world in refinancing central Europe for example than timid and provincial American Senators can ever hope to accomplish. And is the United States to believe forever that a valid interest in the affairs of Europe and the world brings with it the plague...