Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received...
...fancy figment but a real live companion-secretary, Alice B. Toklas is a Californian (her father was a Pole) who has lived with Gertrude Stein for the last 26 years. Authoress Stein says she often urged Companion Toklas to write her autobiography, finally decided to do it for her. In the book's final sentences Gertrude Stein drops the thin disguise, says to Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice...
...Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel is not in a sanatorium in Vienna but in a cell in Yerovda jail where he was Mahatma's companion before the latter's release...
...same mishap as befell Commander Settle and his stratosphere balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death, lightening the basket enough to save her life...
...over southern Russia, similar to those staged during the same period by Activist Stalin. The stolen money, in both cases was used to finance the Party of Revolution-which meant to Lenin and to Stalin the Communist Party. Said Lenin to Pilsudski about this time. "You are our companion in arms until the fall of Tsarism but after that you will turn your back on us.'' Said bristling Pilsudski to a group of Socialists long after the World War from which Poland emerged free: "You accuse me of having betrayed Socialism. It is this way, gentlemen: We rode...