Word: companionably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Mayor Walker reached Paris last week and took a suite at the Hotel Crillon, correspondents nocked in to ask him about his travelling companion. Unabashed, the Mayor declared: "Dave Maier is a true friend of mine. There's the little Dutchman. Get a good look...
...writing. He is 28, has been scrivening since he published an article in the Atlantic Monthly on student government at Kent School while he was a student there. His first novel was Confusion published in his Sophomore year at Harvard. Saturday Evening Post, Pictorial Review, Woman's Home Companion buy his short stories. Other books: Michael Scarlett, Cockpit, Son of Perdition. Last year S.S. San Pedro appeared in Scribner's Magazine, has been selected as one of two books by the Book-of-the-Month Club for September...
...stories current in Sandusky for some time concerning a sea-serpent which had frightened many a fisherman. The traveling salesmen, Frank Bagenstose and Clifford Wilson, thought their time had come. But Salesman Wilson unshipped an oar, struck out forcibly with it, stunned the apparition. Growing bolder, he and his companion fished down in the water, brought up 18 ft. of fat snake. They wadded it into the rowboat, took it to shore, crated it, locked it in their automobile. As soon as it was crated, it revived. Crowds numbering thousands filed past the motorcar...
...enough to insist on a ten-week holiday every year. Recently she spent this holiday working for Warner Brothers at $30,000 a week, highest salary ever paid to a cinemactress. Last week she left Hollywood for a trip to Europe with a quick stop-over in Manhattan. Her companion on train and boat (adjacent staterooms) was the Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson...
...Manhattan apartment, two one-inch turtles were kept in a glass bowl by Peter Mathews. writer. One of the turtles was named Kalmikoff (after the Russian wrestler) because he repeatedly escaped from the bowl by scrambling to the back of his companion, hoisting himself over the edge. Replaced three times, Kalmikoff escaped once more, disappeared. Four days later, one-inch Kalmikoff was discovered at the street door of the apartment house, four floors below his bowl. There is no elevator in the building...