Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioners. When he shook off the crowd of politicians at the funeral and boarded his train East, whom should he find but one of the mourners. Representative Samuel D. McReynolds of Chattanooga, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee-one of those prominently mentioned for Senator-as his traveling companion. When his train arrived in Washington, Governor Browning dashed through a crowd of importuning politicians, one of whom almost tore his coat off, and sped to the Wrhite House. There the President, in the midst of preparations for departure (see p. 15), kept him waiting two and a half hours...
Jeffery John Archer, Earl Amherst was a soldier of the King during the World War, won himself the Military Cross. Later he became a dramatic critic on Manhattan's famed morning World, an intimate of all the Tonys on West 52nd Street and a bosom companion of Noel Coward. Last week the Earl of Amherst, 40, stood in a London tailor's shop wrapped in the mantle of crimson velvet and banded ermine in which he must make obeisance to his King...
Resigned. Lee Wilder Maxwell, 55; from the board chairmanship of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home) which he had held since 1934; in Manhattan...
...woods for the body of a woman who has mysteriously disappeared. Mrs. Bramson, a doddering hypochondriac, has sent for Danny to rebuke him for misbehavior with her maidservant, but before he leaves, his aggressive understanding of her symptoms induces her to hire him as a male nurse and companion. When Danny moves in, the most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned hatbox just about big enough to hold a human head. When the corpse the police are looking for is found without one, the suspicions which Danny's over-solicitude for her aunt have aroused...
Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...