Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Senator Carter ("Pluck") Glass of Virginia worked to perfect his measure as a companion-piece to the Federal Reserve Act which he pushed through the House of Representatives 20 years ago. He had to battle a bankers' lobby dead set against further Federal restrictions. He had to overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper...
Radio listeners to a broadcast by "Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...
...from India converted the Emperor Ming Ti to Buddhism. Chief symbol of that religion was the lion because, as India's most dreaded beast, it represented all the human passions and powers of darkness which the Lord Buddha had subdued. Tamed, the lion became his faithful servant and companion, was usually pictured by his side. But China had no lions and most Chinese had never seen one. At last some sharp-eyed follower of the Emperor noticed how strikingly the Court's tawny little dogs resembled Buddha's lion. Eunuchs thenceforth strove to breed lion-like characteristics...
...Fraternal twins are from companion...
...Charles Knowlton, Massachusetts physician and philosopher, was fined and imprisoned for publishing in 1832 Fruits of Philosophy; or, the Private Companion of Young Married People, a discussion of birth control. Dr. Leslie E, Keeley made over $1,000.000 in ten years out of his cure for alcoholism and drug addiction, which he said consisted of injections chiefly of double chloride of gold. In 1895 he claimed 250,000 cures, could point with pride to 359 chapters of the Keeley League, composed of 30.000 male reformed drunkards, female temperance workers...