Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...
...James Hiram Kelsey Jr. of the U. S. S. Lexington was lost when his plane fell into the sea during maneuvres. Last week Lieut. John Scott Graff of the U. S. S. Saratoga crashed in the Atlantic 24 mi. off Virginia, quickly disappeared with his plane. Luckier was his companion, Chief Radioman R. K. Kelly, who fought his way clear, was picked up by destroyers...
...open water, a strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when...
Near Fouke, Ark., at a Pentecostal meeting, a farmer boy slashed an artery in his companion's arm. Worshippers formed a circle around the wounded youth, prayed fervently for an hour, watched his blood flow unchecked until he was dead...
Died. Mrs. Frances Hart Breasted, 61, wife and companion on most expeditions of University of Chicago's Orientalist James Henry Breasted; of bacterial endocarditis; in Chicago...