Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that New Jersey is a place to go to for other things besides the Princeton game, he decides to set up a pig farm there. He changes to a kennel, however, when he stumbles upon Angus MacQuade, the man who in Scotland helped him buy Mr. Bones, his agreeable companion. He is pursued by his self-appointed fiancee, who has completely abandoned the feminine pretense. She in turn is pursued by a Yale man, along the lines of the adage, "Little bugs have lesser bugs--", but he is neatly disposed of in the end by being married to Angus...
...liked to make money ("Just at present my passion is avarice"), that she loved the U. S., loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times Square. When she sailed for the U. S., after a 30-year absence, with her companion, Alice B. Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom on the Champlain for less than the price of a small one, as one of the privileges of fame. "People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing...
...second companion "under a small wooden cross" must have jumped overboard before reaching Panama in order to have his funeral in the woods of Darien...
...Secretary of State for the Dominions, hustled back from the Brussels Conference last week to arrange his father's funeral. Because doctors worried greatly over Scot MacDonald's increasing melancholia, he was sent on the Reina del Pacifico cruise with his youngest daughter, Sheila, for companion. With his body still at sea. the British Government proffered him the honor of a Westminster Abbey burial. This the MacDonald family politely refused. For years Ramsay MacDonald had hoped to be buried in his beloved Lossiemouth, beside his still more beloved wife, Margaret Ethel, who died...
From David Alfaro Siqueiros, companion of Rivera in the days of the syndicate, now a lieutenant colonel with the Loyalist army in Spain, one portrait painting was shown. It contained little of the rocketing imagination with which this painter once lit the Mexican Renaissance...