Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago "Buck" Buckley was a University of Chicago footballer. Seventeen years ago he was president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish...
When an American college student or schoolboy speaks of "the fellows," meaning thereby his companions, the other boys, he uses the word in an older sense than the Oxford man does when he speaks of the English "fellows." A "fellow" was a companion, a comrade, a mate, before he was a holder of a share in a college, an honorary scholar. In Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also...
...square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
...later played in Berlin in Shaw's Saint Joan. To learn English, Actress Bergner rehearsed in London in a play especially written for her, abandoned it to act successively in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Strange Interlude, The Constant Nymph. Currently she is in Escape Me Never, a companion piece to The Constant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of another Duse but some galleryites booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi. She is a Jewess...
...Sitting Pretty," the other picture, is hardly in the same class as its companion, it is, however, good of its kind. It is the run-of-the-mill musical comedy, Hollywood style. Its greatest virtues lie in the unusual amount of good music and in the personality and general form of Miss Ginger Rogers. Such songs as "I Wants Meander with Miranda," "Good Morning Glory," and "Did You Ever See a Dram Walking" all currently popular, are to be found scattered through the course of the film. The plot, if the faint trend of connected story may be so designated...