Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...
Aimee Semple McPherson, famed evangelist, when trying to prove that she had not cohabitated with Kenneth Ormiston, her radio operator, in a California cabin, is said to have suggested that perhaps Mrs. Virla Kimball had been Mr. Ormiston's companion. Mrs. Kimball claimed "defamation of character," and sued Evangelist McPherson for $1,000,000. Last week, Mrs. Kimball's lawyer announced that the suit had been settled out of court. What the terms of settlement might have been, he refused to say; his client, however, was "perfectly satisfied...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth's Companion...
...aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing total...
...Jannings was no cousin of the Tsar before he appeared upon the screen. He was a member of famed Max Reinhardt's theatrical troupe, played Shakespearean repertory as now presented in Manhattan. He was persuaded to appear in the cinema by famed director Ernst Lubitsch, a onetime stock-company companion, then with a German film company. He has since pleased with performances in Faust, The Way of All Flesh, Variety...