Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imperial Japanese Navy, studying at Harvard, has recently been engaged in collecting military intelligence in the United States, advice from Washington indicated yesterday. Sketches of the harbor works of San Diego, California were found in the student's pockets following a smash-up the officer received last summer. A companion naval officer was killed in the auto accident...
...difficulties as are to be anticipated crop up in connection with the musicomedy, called Dancing Lady. Gloomy, irascible, gnawed by dark creative fervors, the dance director presently hears that his backer has withdrawn his support because the young socialite wants his inamorata to be, not an actress, but his companion on a trip to Cuba. As vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening...
...said he calmly. Abruptly he snatched the towel from the face of one of the bandits, barking, "Who are you? What are you doing in this building?" When the other pulled out a rope to bind him, Publisher McGraw lunged forward, grappled with both, unmasked the second bandit. His companion dropped his revolver, pulled out a hammer swaddled in a towel. Publisher McGraw dodged, then prudently subsided. They bound & gagged him, took $90 from his coat pocket, escaped. Released by a porter. Publisher McGraw gruffly told newshawks: "I wanted it kept mum, because I'm not much...
...blond young brothers are sleeping in the thick-walled Tower of London. The elder, newly crowned King Edward V of England and titular head of England's contentious royal House of York, sleeps restlessly. His diseased teeth ache and he has been crying. Young King Edward's companion, his younger brother, Richard Duke of York, has been crying no less...
...veterans, Segard, finds himself swiftly and effectively replaced in Therese's affections by his companion, Bastien, who, after a whirlwind fifteen minute courtship, persuades her to elope with him a week later. Segard, with a pertinacity which one assumes he has never shown before, boards the Canada bound "S. S. Tenacity"--alone...