Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anne Sullivan Macy, lifetime companion and tutor of blind Helen Keller, bedded herself in a Manhattan hospital, had a cataract removed from her left eye. Blind in her right eye, Mrs. Macy was rapidly losing the sight of her left. Last week doctors hoped she would be able to read again, not have to use the Braille system which she once taught Miss Keller and which Miss Keller has lately been teaching back...
Bold, black-bearded Great Exile Professor Alexander Tsankoff staged a successful machine-gun coup in 1923 and was virtual master of Bulgaria as Premier for the next five years. His companion in banishment, Lieut.-Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff, came in as Premier last May at the head of an Army officers' junta that promised to end political bickerings in Bulgaria. Last week these two had hardly set out before Gueorguieff adherents pulled so many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again...
...evening last week a waiter with a tray of cocktails approached two grey-haired, dinner-jacketed gentlemen chatting amiably in the Colonel's Reception Room of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. One smiled, shook his head. The other grinned, took a glass, raised it in his companion's direction, cried, "To your health!" Few minutes later Herbert Clark Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith marched out to a banquet table, sat down to continue their chat over the water tumblers. After dinner the Presidential rivals of 1928 mounted the same platform for the first time in their lives...
...Odets' Awake and Sing!, the tale of a family of disadvantaged Bronxites, did not employ all of the Group's acting company. And his short play, Waiting for Lefty, was not long enough to be presented alone. So the Group got him to whip together a brief companion piece, issued them both together. Till the Day I Die, the companion piece, passes the 60 minutes before Waiting for Lefty starts, and that is about...
...Orleans French Quarter night club, John Irving Pierce, 23, free-lance writer, handed his open knife to his companion, Marian King, 23. Miss King stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...