Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night her Spokane neighbors noticed that Widow Alice Dornsife, 73, had found a companion for her tomcat. A few nights later the cat disappeared. Widow Dornsife's tomcat found a new companion. That one, too, disappeared. Widow Dornsife got a third, fourth, fifth companion for her tomcat. All disappeared. Then one night up from the widow's basement came the tomcat's first companion. With her were five kittens. The neighbors complained...
...scenes behind the foreboding Romanesque walls of grey stone when she was Chicago's No. 1 Hostess, serving meals off gold plates, discussing her favorite subjects of art, astrology, numerology, "synthetic psychology." Mrs. McCormick is not left lonely in her adversity. Mr. Krenn is as constant a companion as ever although until Mrs. McCormick recovers her health they will not be seen as of old in the neighborhood cinema, where they sat always in the back row, or at the theatre, chatting in German. Mrs. McCormick's brother, John D. Jr., recently rushed to Chicago to advise...
...garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them...
...announced last week he would leave next month for Panama to hunt the bush master, largest, deadliest of vipers. Sometimes 12 ft. long with 2-in. fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters...
...cause about which she may or may not have profound convictions. The weakness of the W. O. N. P. R. lies in the populous class of rural women who also vote and who bitterly suspect, envy and hate the ground that ladies like Mrs. Sabin walk on. Crusaders. A companion organization to Mrs. Sabin's is the Crusaders, which numbers a million militant male members (chiefly young) and which was founded in the same month and year. Last week. two days after the Roslyn convention, the Crusaders, 40 trustees and commanders met privately in the country home of Trustee...