Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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March upset the Throne of Nicholas II. Kerensky's power did not survive October. Before the turn of the new year Lenin and Trotsky were the Gods of Moscow, and Bukharin was their Prophet. He remained for eleven years?until only a few months ago?the most potent of Soviet...
Divorced. Dudley Field Malone, lawyer, onetime (1913-17) Collector of the Port of New York, Woodrow Wilson confidant, legal advisor to publicites (James Joseph Tunney, Gertrude Ederle); by Mrs. Doris Stevens Malone, oldtime "suffragette," onetime advisor to the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; at...
While the curious were still wondering precisely what the alleged "infirmity" might have been-perhaps the prostate trouble long accepted as fact by newsmen who knew Wilson-an answer to Professor Pitkin at length did appear. It came from a man who knew Woodrow Wilson with undoubted intimacy-Joseph Patrick...
Baker Krusack is Jencic's confidant and civic tutor. He got Jencic's citizenship papers for him at the City Hall and delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him...
Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued...