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...young friends, both fond of fishing & sailing, stood on New Brunswick's Campobello Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make...
...would be hard to part with: good-hearted Anghel and his lovely wife Zamfira. Anghel asked John to come and stay with them till his eyes were cured, promised to keep him busy. Long after he was well enough to leave, John stayed on. Anghel grew to be as fond of him as if John were his son; John liked him too, but it was Zamfira that kept...
...famed Coach Mercer Beasley, she wielded it with such proficiency that she won the National Girls' Championship. In 1928 she met John Van Ryn who, just out of Princeton, was winning recognition on the courts as a "giant-killer." By talking shop at tournament after tournament, they became fond of each other. In 1930 they were married...
...where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...
...Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England's all-important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant war. Of such diplomats as Russia's Isvolsky, Austria's Berchtold, England's Grey, he writes with temperate...