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Word: companionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politicules | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

John William Davis, the Democratic nominee of four years ago, was also on the Border. He pleaded with Kentucky to come back to the fold. With him was a surprising, brown-derbied travelling companion, Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of the world's champion New York "Yankees." Campaigner Ruth addressed club and school audiences and spoke on the radio. To the consternation of Democratic leaders in rural sections, he related Nominee Smith's leadership in legalizing Sunday baseball. At Louisville, he caused excitement when his burly frame crushed the chair in which he was sitting on the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Followed a Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill parley. Directly afterward Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill proceeded to the British Embassy for lunch-and their luncheon companion was John Pierpont Morgan.* Not until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were they sure that final Reparations settlement will now be made, after ten years of piddling with approximations. After luncheon a purring motor car conveyed Chancellor Churchill to the station, where he impetuously entrained for London. Another car carried the Agent General to confer lengthily with Emile Moreau. Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...information which Mr. Knopf sells is done up in a book form and is called The Bon Viant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks. It is the work of the late Professor Jerry Thomas, onetime bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel, Manhattan, and the Planters' House, St. Louis. Professor Thomas (whose parents wanted him to be a preacher) first published How to Mix Drinks in 1862. It quickly went through six large printings; Professor Thomas became a world-figure; it was said that President Grant, having quaffed the Professor's BLUE BLAZER after playing croquet, gave him a cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Mix | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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