Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strong Brazil. Brazilian Senators made speeches (in Portuguese, the national tongue). Brazilian historians published essays. The Brazilian Jornal do Commercio, quasi-official daily, published an editorial rehearsing U. S.-Brazilian friendship, recalling that Brazil was first to recognize the Monroe Doctrine. The editorial also said: "Although we have always recognized what we owe to Europe and the necessity of our relations with the Old World, still we all know what we owe to solidarity of interests with the United States. We admire the North Americans and do not fear them, knowing that we are as strong a people as they...
...State Banquet in the Cattete Palace (Brazil's White House), "the noble and elevated" friendship of Brazil and the U. S. was Mr. Hoover's theme. It was the last speech of his tour and the longest...
...made only the more remarkably by their unity of origin. The hearthfires of the New England hills and the sparkling lights of Broadway will next week both shine upon the men who are now leaving Harvard. The warm glow of family affection and the brighter sparkle of old friendship will help them to relax from the pressure of December hour examinations and to reawake the peculiar joy in a community of human experience which for nearly twenty centuries has been known as the Christmas spirit...
...husband though she begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because she loved him, Lily Christine had married a smart model of English manhood, penniless gambler, cricketer, master of many mistresses. Lily Christine ignored these "pieces of nonsense," supplied her "old carthorse" husband with a constant friendship, and held the family together...
...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...