Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...65th Street gave her daughter in marriage to John Boettiger. A clerk from the Marriage License Bureau had brought a license to the house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger's automobile...
...Special Sessions court of three judges found the men guilty, although Chief Justice Frederic Kernochan, old friend and yachting companion of President Roosevelt, argued that exposure of the body might be willful without being lewd. Said Justice Kernochan: "I don't feel that the law at present, enacted a number of years ago, is sufficiently broad enough to render a conviction. It is possible, should the Legislature see fit, to stop this practice [of nudism] and I think it should...
Whizzing through little Rockville, Conn., with a companion, a maid, and a chauffeur, Nora lasigi Bullitt, pretty debutante daughter of onetime (1912-13) U. S. Solicitor-General William Marshall Builitt, was brought up short by a traffic policeman, led off to police court. There the policeman announced that she had been passing intersections at 65 m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering...
After the customary prelude of turkey and its companion delicacies the assembled company of Dunster bucks and their eminently presentable companions of the gentler sex settled back to enjoy the antics of Gale Noyes and his operatic troupe. The curtain raiser was a modern opera concerned entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria...
...political story in News Of The World has long been the paper's only claim to respectability. For years these serious articles have been amazingly sound and often just as amazingly forehanded. They are a lasting epitaph to that quality in Lord Riddell's personality which made him the companion and confidant of Big People...