Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Witness Hill went into his advertising philosophy: "From time immemorial tobacco has been considered as a companion of men. Within recent years it has also been considered a companion of women and it makes for companionship between the two. . . . We have innumerable stories of the relaxation and the relief...
Brunette Katherine Moog, who runs a nursing home for convalescents in Manhattan, identified herself as a friend and traveling companion of slick Dr. Ignatz Griebl, supposedly a key member of the gang. Beauteous Miss Moog related that she ran into Dr. Griebl on a Germany-bound ship in 1937. She proceeded with him to Berlin and there was introduced to Lieutenant Commanders Udo von Bonin and Hermann Menzel of the German War Ministry...
Other publishers did not follow suit. Said David Smart of Esquire, Ken and Coronet: "We're cooperating 100%." Similar reassurance came from the Crowell group (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home), TIME Inc., Forum and Scribner...
...seriously and detracts from what was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek farce, the film is thoroughly enjoyable. Very nearly as good is "Time Out For Murder," in which a reporter (Michael Whalen) solves an involved but ingenious murder. Chick Chandler, as Mr. Whalen's photographer and constant companion, contributes excellent humor throughout, and Gloria Stuart, as a beautiful bill collector turned detective, gives the picture the light touch needed to put it over...
...Minnesota-Purdue football game at Minneapolis, her first since she enrolled at Radcliffe College 38 years ago, went famed blind and deaf Helen Keller. Sitting next to her, Companion Mary Agnes ("Polly'') Thomson clasped her hand, signaled the action and color of the game, ''telegraphed" the gains & losses play by play. As Minnesota won, 7-0, Miss Keller jumped to her feet again & again, cheered wildly. Said she: "I surely am pulling for Minnesota today. . . . Those beautiful kicks are really the poetry of motion. . . . They were beautifully matched teams...