Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compelled him to write A Jew in Love, a gargoylized caricature of a Jewish publisher, Hecht was called antiSemitic. But Hecht says: "I lived 40 years in my country without encountering anti-Semitism or concerning myself even remotely with its existence." Then, one day, a luncheon companion asked Hecht, "Do you mind talking about Jews...
First prize (?150) went to the Hon. Hugh Fraser, Conservative M.P., who had wisely bought a notoriously intelligent companion. Then the happy hunters had a ham and tongue supper, afterward moved to London's Orchid Room. The party broke...
Harvey, who this week will make his 1,110th nonappearance in Manhattan's 48th Street Theater, may or may not have heard last week that he is getting a new drinking companion.* While Frank Fay takes a seven-week summer vacation starting July 12, Hollywood's 6 ft. 3 in. Jimmy Stewart will take charge of his lines and his invisible 6 ft. 1 in. rabbit. Producer Brock Pemberton said he offered Stewart his first Broadway role in seven years "between the acts one night a couple of weeks ago. Jimmy raved about the play...
...family everything. Hsiao holds Chinese society together; but it is also used as an excuse for graft and nepotism. Hsiao imposes on a man responsibilities the West does not know; but it also tends to modify the sense of personal guilt which is the basis of Western morality. Its companion symbol is cheng-correctness -which emphasizes ceremony and the outward forms of behavior...
Amateurism, the inevitable companion of amateur theater, finally caught up with Harvard dramatics last night. After a winter season unparalleled in recent years for artistic and financial success, the local thespians--HDC wing--have taken one more step into what must have looked like the blue heaven of prosperity. If the opening performance of their prosperity vehicle is any criterion, however, they are about to rub their eyes and find the stardust quite, quite gone...