Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion picture, "Luxury Liner," is one of the worst melodramatic atrocities attempting to picture a cross section of life after the "Grand Hotel" manner that has yet appeared on the screen...
Very much in evidence was her companion, twice-married Mrs. Victoria Price, with whom (and seven white boys) she bummed her way to Chattanooga and back. Mrs. Price says she supports herself & mother on the $13 a month she makes at a Huntsville cotton mill. In court she appeared the last word in cracker chic. She still sticks to her story that the Negroes threw six of her seven white male companions off the train, stripped her, raped her at knife's point...
...this point Cinematographer Bonnett doubled up with a severe pain in his stomach. What he should have done, as his companion observer did do, was to pop his head out of the cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours...
...Oxford Companion" is perhaps the most useable book of reference that has appeared in modern times. For anyone studying English literature, or, in fact, any literature, it is practically indispensable; for anyone merely interested in it, the book will prove a guide, an aid, a companion...
Beside listing every writer in English down to the present time, "The Oxford Companion" includes information about all authors, ancient or modern, that have in any way affected or influenced English literature, even those who might be alluded to. Under the name of each author a short account of his life and writings is given with special attention to dates; under the titles of particular works, there is a description of something of their contents and general nature. Summaries of the plots of important works of fiction--not long enough, to be sure, to keep Professors like Greenough from recommending...