Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...newspapers, not more than three are controlled by the Germans; the rest are either neutral or pro-Ally. Herbert Moses, the highly respected president of the Brazilian Press Association, and treasurer-director of O Globo, is the son of an American mother and is a stanch friend of England and the U. S. His newspaper reflects this attitude...
...mobbed for making this suggestion. . . . But I still maintain that America has no better, no more intelligent friend than Charles A. Lindbergh. ... I want to nominate him as the Man of the Year...
Would-be daters had better be warned. The last time she went out with an admirer whom she most through friends, she walked him around the Common for an hour and then stopped for hot chocolate. All the friend could say was "Gosh, I can't believe I'm out with Ann Corio...
...found one in Salida, Colo. (pop. 5,065): managing a granite works (tombstones) for his chain-druggist friend, Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Four years and two trials later W. B. went to Leavenworth to serve a 15-year rap for mail fraud. But his Salida friends didn't forget him. They signed petitions, fought for his release. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt commuted his sentence. This time W. B. didn't have to hunt a job. Salidans had one waiting...
...encouraged revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, England; there he wrote his most important verse; there he drowned. Wrote the Tory Courier: "Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned, now he knows whether there is a God or no." Wrote Leigh Hunt: "But Shelley, my divine-minded friend-your friend-the friend of the Universe-he has perished at sea! ... God bless...