Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring it to a stop. By that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs...
Almost certain were Federal agents that Nelson's woman companion had been his 21-year-old wife Helen. A one-time Chicago salesgirl, she has borne him a son aged 5, a daughter aged 4. Last week as a "no quarter" hunt was supposed to be closing in on Helen Nelson, her terror-stricken father appealed to her through the Press: "Give up rather than face Government bullets." But Federal Agents announced that they had already captured her the day after her husband's death...
...those with such an appetite for romance that they gag at no improbability, Author Gorman's latest concoction will be a toothsome dish. More finicky gourmets will rise before Suzy is all swallowed. A companion piece to Jonathan Bishop (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933), this tale of a golden-hearted tart is set against the more modern background...
...Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...
...other movie, which presents Joan Blondell as virtually a loose woman, with an equally loose companion is supposed to be fast moving. It depicts the life of two opportunist gold diggers with hearts of "gold," a millionaire playboy, a divorce, and Paris. They all do pretty well...