Word: companionably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...them, though as recently as 30 years ago they were cannibals, was curiosity. For she was Dr. Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist. Soon she made herself popular, by the U. S. political trick of baby-kissing and by getting herself adopted into the tribe. She stayed ten months. Her only traveling companion was a fox terrier, her only equipment a revolver, a first-aid kit, 25 Ibs. of staple groceries, gifts of tobacco, tinsel, toy balloons, with which she had small difficulty in winning her way among New Irelanders...
...late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...
Margaret Yorke is the mysterious, young, occasionally beautiful companion of a rich old California lady and governess to the r.o.C.I.'s adopted little boy. Margaret is above her station; there is not much doubt of that. But why is she so hostile to rich, tanned, charming, fairly young Stan Crittenden, her employer's nephew and favorite? For a time Margaret herself cannot discover the reason. But when scheming, divorced, baby-blue-eyed Shirley appears on the scene, re-establishes herself in the community, re-engages herself to Stan, Margaret's cold but not really hard heart has begun to blossom...
Also opened with the terminal will be the first Harvey restaurant east of Chicago. Harvey, Inc., companion concern to the Fred Harvey restaurants and hotels that flourish mightily throughout the West, will be represented further in the terminal by a candy shop, men's shop, women's shop, toy shop, lunch room, tea rooms, barber shop, book store, mammoth drug store...