Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten, he had lately become very poor, begun selling his archives...
...Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
Died. John Albert Macy, 55, critic and author (The Spirit of American Literature, The Story of the World's Literature, The Critical Game), onetime (1901-09) associate editor of Youth's Companion, onetime (1922-23) literary editor of The Nation; of a heart attack; in Stroudsburg...
...First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior of U. S. Sulpicians, president of St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. Last week Cardinal Verdier arrived from Montreal by way of Worcester, Mass., stopped a few days in a French church in Manhattan, then entrained for Baltimore. Thence he was to go to Washington...
...Negroes were vexed with this northern idyll. Grumbled The Crisis, race paper: "Deliberate discourtesy. . . No invitation was extended to Mat Henson, the faithful colored companion and servant of Peary and his only comrade when he discovered the Pole. . . . Rude...