Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover returned to his private office, picked up his telephone to inquire about his good friend Secretary of War Good, then on his way to the operating room at Walter Reed Hospital. The three visitors returned to the Treasury by the back way. That evening Secretary Mellon announced the President's plan to lop 1% from 1929 income and corporation taxes...
...more than an hour Col. Williaml L. Keller, Chief Surgeon of the Walter Reed Hospital, close friend of the sick man, probed Secretary Good's abdomen. The appendix was gangrenous, perforated, and out of place, dangerously low. Doctors watching the operation shook their heads gravely...
...emerged favorably from the anesthetic. He gave his wife lucid instructions about pressing War Department business. From his bedside went incessant reports to the White House. Two days after the operation he began to sink. At night President Hoover went to the hospital sickroom. "How are you, my dear friend?" he said. The Secretary mumbled feebly, inaudibly, tried to express appreciation, slumped back unconscious...
...Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels...
Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He plays with gusto many parts?Napoleon, Joe Cans, Franz Schubert, Don Juan, Diablero?all waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning...