Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arraigned in a Cambridge, Mass. district court last week, Harvard Freshman Frank pleaded not guilty to charges of driving under the influence of liquor, as did his companion Richard Devens, who appeared in court in pajamas and a black fur coat...
...Rumor had already fixed several appointments: Pharmacist's Mate George Fox, long attached to the White House, to succeed the late Gus Gennerich as masseur, companion of the swimming pool and personal handler; Son and Marine Corps Lieutenant-Colonel James Roosevelt to become an unpaid, untitled aide at the White House, taking over some of the functions of the late Louis McHenry Howe; Eugene S. Leggett, acting chairman of the nebulous National Emergency Council, to succeed Stephen Early as press secretary...
...Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion of tiny Lord Beaverbrook: "The King M has an inferiority complex. . . . Mrs. Simpson has built up her man. . . . She said to the King:'My boy, you're not the fool you think...
...long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
...Avenues-a district so tough that it has long been known as "Hell's Kitchen." At ten o'clock, just as the pair got back into their car, a youth jumped on the right running board, asked a tip for watching the car. Importer Gambinossi gave his companion a dime to hand him. "Cheap skate!" snarled the young man. Gambinossi got out. At once four other hoodlums jumped on him. All five gave him a severe beating. When he got away, he limped to the nearest police station...