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Word: befriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scribner incident was important, for the friendly clerk was Lewis Hatch, who became a great bibliophile and continued to befriend the young window-gazer. After a number of disastrous printing ventures, Cleland came under the tutelage and iron discipline of able Daniel Berkeley Updike, whose work at Boston's famed Merrymount Press raised the entire level of U. S. printing. The true printer's quiet love for arranging type and ornament has never left him-he still supervises the lettering and printing processes of all his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cleland's Book | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Columbia Burlesque management has anything to say about it, the over-bushy crepe hair and elaborate "comic" make-up will no longer befriend comedians on the Columbia wheel. The Columbia solons declare that their funny men in future must depend on their own ability rather than on greasepaint and artificial bald-spots. Drastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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