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...First Methodist Episcopal Church last week had their annual meeting in Lovely Lane Hall, had as their guest of honor Col. Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's personal friend and secretary, gave him a scroll acclaiming "The Finest Friendship in America." Excerpt: "Friendship is the fairest and sweetest flower that blooms in the garden of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sequels | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

...thought what you wrote was so. You were indignant that the boys of your old alma mater should be treated so. You just didn't know that Holy Cross men do not bite football players. You didn't know that one of the sweetest football relationships in history is that of Harvard and Holy Cross. You didn't know that Holy Cross men would scorn poor sportsmanship. They are a great group. We know them. Harvard, a great group, knows them. It was just that you, an individual, did not know them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 12/3/1932 | See Source »

...passing sentence on this onetime German secret agent who later played a shady part in the Harding regime and wrote an audacious book about it, said Judge James M. Proctor: "The verdict reveals that the defendant capitalized not only on the sweetest and tenderest emotions of the human heart, but also on the basest in his clever and adroit plan. The Lindbergh case brought out all the best in the hearts of men, but also gave the opportunity to some to display the weakness and wickedness of human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rascal Sentenced | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

What, if you please, is the drink commonly termed "the lead shot"? In my rather brief sojourn of two years here, I have yet to drink this "fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...School has its drink (the 'lead shot': a fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain)." I am sorry to say that this drink seems to have gone the way of all popular drinks: here today and gone tomorrow. I have been in Exeter for several years, and I have as yet to meet such a drink, though I have met many fearful ones. For example: Welch grape juice in a milk shake, thus making their advertised "Purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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