Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come. They worry because their cities are "irresponsible, dirty, corrupt," when in Lewis' opinion such conditions are "like nature," and therefore highly admirable. Americans even suspect their gregarious habits and glad-handedness, when, as Lewis sees it, they should be reveling in their "beautiful human impulse to befriend, to treat all men as brothers...
...thought is to rob the hard-working Boers of the gold beneath their peaceful farm lands. Behind him is the might of Britain in the person of a fat, money-lusting Queen Victoria (Hedwig Wangel), sly, oily Minister Chamberlain (Gustav Griindgens). Throughout the film only two nations befriend the Boers-The Netherlands and Germany...
...your writer's statements I must take exception. He says that I "befriended" the late Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge at the Paris Peace Conference. Unfortunately, at that time I was not in a position to befriend anybody, and least of all Prof. Coolidge who was my senior in years and experience, a scholar of international reputation, and one of the chief American experts at the Peace Conference. Of course, it was the other way around. Michael Karpovich...
...missionary district of Nevada" the National Council of the Episcopal Church three years ago sent tall, bustling Rev. Henry B. Thomas, a onetime chaplain at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Thomas took over St. Stephen's House at the University of Nevada's gates, began to befriend Reno's Youth. Last fall he organized among the high-school boys & girls a Supper Club, which met at his house for eats, games, discussions. In no time at all they organized a Youth Movement...