Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village...
Shricks for help disturbed the Yard at 10 p.m. last night, as Mary Ward and her companion, employees of Fogg Museum, chased after a thief who had snatched Miss Ward's bag in front of Lehman Hall...
...seemed an open & shut case. A 205-Ib. barkeeper named Jim Comber, half seas over from a night of drinking, had brawled with a drunken companion on a Philadelphia street. The friend staggered and fell; witnesses hurrying to work at dawn saw Jim Comber kick him repeatedly in the head after he was down. Minutes later the man was dead. The prosecution asked for a second-degree murder conviction. Judge Joseph Sloane, summing up, told the jurors: "I do not see how you can find the defendant not guilty...
...This is a call to action," said Dr. Truman B. Douglass, executive vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches, in the Woman's Home Companion. "The penalty for failure is greater than any Christian would like to contemplate. The time may come-it has already come in many communities-when millions of Christians actually will have no churches...
laugh: a lively satire on cowboy movies, in which the hero is always a "buddy" to his female companion, reserving true love for his horse. Other comic material, including a skit about a Harvard man's first attempt at play-writing, falls flat in a most