Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Binghamton, N. Y., Zena Brown went swimming with red painted toenails, suddenly felt something bite off her right big toe. Her companion, Colonel Elmer E. Johnson, explained that a snapping turtle or big fish had been deceived by the painted toenail...
Wilken. Schenley Distillers Corp. already has a cheap, fas selling straight whiskey in Old Quaker. Seeking a companion blended whiskey to popularize, Schenley consulted Harry E. Wilken, chief distiller for Joseph S. Finch & Co., a Schenley subsidiary at Schenley, Pa. Distiller Wilken produced a formula for a blend of four-year-old whiskey, 16-month whiskey, and neutral spirits (alcohol and water). Last week it was launched as The Wilken Family Blended Whiskey, along with an advertising campaign designed to endear Distiller Wilken & family to the whiskey-drinking public...
...Vienna, Suicide Emma Albrecht, 47, spinster, left a note: 'T could not go on living after the unfaithfulness of my beloved canary, Hansi, who for six years had been my sole companion." Hansi had flown away...
Last week near Albona, Spain, a Rolls-Royce going 87 m.p.h. careened into a culvert, turned over five times. From beneath the wreck were pulled the mangled remains of Prince Alexis Mdivani, divorced husband of Barbara Hutton. His driving companion, a German baroness, bit her tongue off, will never talk again...
...advised women on their clothes and social affairs and husbands did not distrust him. Among multimillionaires who, as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr says, "might hold up the market but could not prevent conversation slumping heavily at their own tables." Lehr's levity and social resourcefulness made him a valued companion, although malicious society writers sometimes made fun of his spectacular dress, his talent for taking feminine roles at amateur theatricals...