Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Buffalo, Anna Steese Richardson, editor (Woman's Home Companion) and playwright (Big Hearted Herbert) sputtered: "It's the same old stuff we have had for 30 years. The same contralto singer. The same old blah, blah, blah all over again. It makes me wild....We are headed inevitably for Fascism and yet the club women go on with the same old stuff and the average woman in the American home .cares no more about the way in which her city, state, and Federal...
...naval officer in "The Taking of the Gry" and chats with his readers about one of his youthful exploits. As soon as he says, "I can tell you about the 'Gry' better than most people," he keeps his audience in a close and absorbing relationship until he and his companion, Teniento Bronnay, pilot their prize safely beyond the rocky, unused channel of Santa Barbara harbor...
...would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank report...
...contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...
...LETTERS OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD -Edited by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Companion volume to the Journal of the late patriotic litterateur...