Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publishers should transpose their covers, few readers could distinguish one of the Women's Group from another. But there are differences of size, value and fine distinctions of policy. The big five: Ladies Home Journal (circulation, 2,538,412), Pictorial Review (2,523,384), Woman's Home Companion (2,274,657), Delineator (2,300,000), Good Housekeeping...
...companion aviation country club, the Westchester near Greenwich. Conn., will begin operations within a few weeks. Others already in process of organization will be at Philadelphia, Newport, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ruth Nichols, pilot-saleslady, is now on the Pacific Coast explaining the Aviation Country Club idea...
...Rockefeller's prizes: A three-day trip to Washington, including a presidential handshake, for Marion Boyd and companion...
Latest arrival in popular priced eight cylinder cars was last week announced by Studebaker Corp., which will make a Dictator Eight in addition to its Dictator Six. It will be a companion car to the company's President and Commander Eights. Price range (six models) is from $1185 to $1435. Said Studebaker's President Erskine: "Motor world today wants eights. . . . In 1928 only 10% of passenger car engines were eights . . . today...
...Greene never uses an alarm-clock. Instead she trains her companion to whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their...