Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tinker's Wedding" more than makes up for the sins of its companion-piece. Loud huzzahs go to Mrs. Howe for one superb accomplishment and another brave try, and to Miss Lynn Baker for some amazingly imaginative and accomplished set and costume-designing...
Opinions varied, Katherine Bova, of 59 Anburn Street, Boston, Melt that Harvard men are very quiet, with her companion, a shapely brunette, adding that "they never bother me, that's the trouble." C. J. Brady, of 20 Worthington Street, Boston, who claims many years of subway contact with them, stated his belief, on the other hand that "they're fine, good time fellows...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, surveyed Manhattan, recalled its aspect three years before, reported to his readers changes that struck him most: women weren't as good-looking as they used to be, but necklines plunged deeper. Analyst Churchill (whose occasional companion has been ex-Best-Dressed Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart) explained that the great beauties were all in Florida at the moment...
Falstaff's death scene, for which the speeches were lifted bodily from Henry IV, Part 2, is boldly invented. The shrunken, heartbroken old companion of Henry's escapades (George Robey, famed British low comedian) hears again, obsessively, the terrible speech ("A man ... so old and so profane. . . .") in which the King casts him off. In this new context, for the first time perhaps, the piercing line, "The king has kill'd his heart," is given its full power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France...