Word: companion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first American teacher to go to England in the series of exchange visits proposed by Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, Lady Astor's companion on her American trip last year (TIME, April 7), is Miss Martha Gill, of Stephen Girard School, Philadelphia. While Miss Gill visits in English homes, an English teacher is in return visiting in New England and Philadelphia...
...obtained producing rights for I Compagnacci, a new one-act opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...
...began by keeping a store. At the age of 18 he met Charity Hallet, who became wife and pious companion. At 26, he owned the first "show" entitled " Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theatre," with which he visited towns as far as New Orleans. His prize " exhibit" was a negress who claimed to be 161 years old and to have been George Washington's nurse. Juggling on street corners and selling bibles contributed to his support...
...tomorrow at Fenway Court the artistically inclined of the University could wish no more delightful companion than Sir Roger himself. He would undoubtedly insist on walking through the gardens in the role of an Italian tyrant, discoursing the while on the greatness and license of the court of the Medicis. After puffing up the stairs, admittedly the stout English gentleman again, a great Flemish tapestry room would transform him into a portly burgher. Yet the sight of an Elizabethan fireplace would make him the happiest of all. Sinking naturally into the nearest eighteenth century chair, despite signs to the contrary...
...Hearst has put a new man in charge of his Chicago paper, The Herald and Examiner-George D. Buckley, who recently resigned the presidency of the Crowell Publishing Company, which publishes the American Magazine, The Woman's Home Companion, Mentor, Farm and Fireside. George Wheeler Hinman, former president of the company that publishes The Herald and Examiner, will devote all his time to writing "signed front page feature articles...