Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He is friend, companion, confidant. He is teacher, counselor, shopping guide. He is entertainer, public servant. He serves the housewife, the handicapped, those who toil by night. His audiences accept him as one of the family. They write him; they hang on his words. He has great responsibility. He lives...
Rampa claimed to have been a confidant and adviser to the Dalai Lama, to have served as a medical officer in the Chinese army during World War II, to have done time in Japanese and Russian concentration camps and to have visited the U.S. "We Tibetans," wrote Rampa, "believe that...
In retaliation Meyner has attacked Forbes's attempted elevation of Lloyd Marsh to the Republican state chairmanship. He has called Marsh a man who "borrowed $25,000 for that party from Joe Bozzo, an admitted confidant of such racketeers as Joe Adonis and the late Willie Moretti." In defense, Forbes...
Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he...
Three days later Bill Knowland took his candidacy out of the "possible" category. The Knowlands packed their bags, set off from their Oakland home for a two-month, 140-speech whistle-stopping "Report to the People of California." The report ranged from a terse analysis of world affairs (Russia, explained...