Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees Greene, like most writers, writing because he needs the money, occasionally inspired despite his jealousy, pettiness, laziness, the disorder that fills his days. He sees Greene capable of a winning tenderness, risking danger to befriend an abandoned traveler, then coldly abandoning his wife...
Tailoring their way through college, the Brothers befriend a new and much-hazed Indian student, discover him to be a millionaire with an income of $10,000 a day, Sundays included. The Indian (Nat Pendleton, perennial fall guy of films) joins their fraternity, of which the only other members are the Ritzes, gives them $80,000 he is carrying as pocket money, commissions them to save the job of luckless Coach O'Hara (Fred Stone). In proper raccoons, courtesy of their protege, they buy off the mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers...
While traveling in Arabia several years ago Lytle White, a student from Howard College at Birmingham, Ala.,* became chummy with Sheik Farced J. Imam. After his return home White received a letter from his friend, who "in his usual sparkling way suggested that I (White) befriend him by being on the alert for a beautiful and competent girl, who might be purchased to honor the position as chief wife of his harem...
VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE- Barry Benefield-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). Sentimental story of a bad woman of Crebillon, La., who is regenerated through the influence of a manly little 7-year-old. They befriend an orphan named Lady, succeed in the cleaning business in Manhattan and live with such aggressive goodwill toward mankind that mushy seems a more accurate word for Carrie and her friends...
...unfamiliar with his ways, a happy word of counsel may not be out of place. Sagmus, his old friend and philosopher, is wont to take the Vagabond under his warm wing. Not to reform, mind you, for the philosopher is a bit of a vagrant himself, but to befriend with wisdom. And the Vagabond seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond and those who have followed his trails that without imagination the richest course is bare...