Word: friend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only reaches its destination undiminished by graft and the incapacity of officials. We must remember that the modern treatment of established theories of property has given us some rather startling shocks. In the preface to his "Life of Gladstone," John Morley says "a firm and trained economist and no friend of Socialism, yet by his legislation upon land in 1870 and 1881 he wrote the opening chapter in a volume in which an unexpected page in the history of property is destined to be inscribed...
Professor Peabody spoke of a certain reserve and dignity which surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity...
...displays happy gifts of insight, humor, and expression. His Cuban in Wisconsin, who "doan' work, but just goes by," is a new type of that Beloved Vagabond with whom our sophisticated generation has developed such an odd, and yet not wholly surprising sympathy. Mr. Stoddard's "Mine Own Familiar Friend" is in a kindly vein, though it might more appropriately be entitled, "Mine Own Chance Acquaintance." The quiet humor of Mr. Porter's paper, "On Music," will be appreciated by men who prefer their own efforts in art to those of others...
...appears that an error was made in my communication to you last week. The clipping which appeared in that discussion was handed to me by a friend, who said it had been taken from the Herald. I therefore credited it to that paper...
...graduates to uninterested employees and persons who have none of the scruples of the original owner. This could easily be avoided if every legitimate possessor of a ticket who is unable to attend himself should return it to the Athletic Association, unless he can give it to some trustworthy friend...