Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife has hired a young woman (Margaret Lockwood) as a companion, and the ghost, apparently seeing a psychic likeness, takes her over body and soul. Miss Lockwood heaves and sobs in demonic possession for most of the rest of the film, until she is saved for the world of sunlight and for that Nice Young Man by the intervention of another and even less convincing apparition...
First-nighters at the San Francisco Opera Company's flossy opening night blinked at an unprecedented sight: Jimmy ("Schnozzola") Durante making his debut in an opera audience. As Manon Lescaut wore on, Durante complained to a companion: "I can't understand a thing they're saying-is the acoustics bad in here?" During intermission, Durante reported later, he rubbed elbows with socialites. "I had to rub elbows," he explained. "Nobody would shake hands with...
...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...
...Cobb's companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...
...night restaurant which for reasons best known to its management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...