Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adopted. By onetime (1925-32) New York Mayor James John Walker and wife, onetime Actress Betty Compton; a boy, eight weeks old, to be a companion to their adopted daughter Mary Ann, 17 months; in Chicago. Name: James John...
...showing increases in circulation. The Journal cut is from $9,500 to $8,500 a page for black & white, McCall's from $8,100 to $7,800. This gives both approximately the same basic rate of $2.90 per page per thousand circulation as Woman's Home Companion and Good Housekeeping. Likely reason for the rate cut: these four women's magazines showed a combined advertising linage gain of less than 3% for the first six months of 1937, as compared with a gain of 10% for all magazines...
...Rear-seat riding in an automobile gives me the fidgets. And while I was voicing my opinions to a companion in the rear seat of an auto the other night, we collided with another car ahead of us-at a rate of about 35 m.p.h. ... I saw what was coming and braced myself. My companion in the back seat had not been watching, and he bounced forward and banged his nose on the back of the front seat. The passenger alongside the driver bumped his forehead on the windshield. Then blood and all the usual details. An ordinary aviation safety...
...flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco. Same year he and a companion flew in easy stages from San Francisco to Moscow via Bering Straits...
...girls slip through the crowd and emerge alongside of a fair-haired Freshman. They are provocative, and the Freshman nudges his companion and smacks his lips. At that point the pianist succeeds in pulling his fingers from the high notes and drops to the other end of the scale, as the voices swell up in accompaniment. For a second the Freshman forgets, and by the second both have found other lightning-long attractions...