Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing his own account of the trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems likely to be chairman at an electrocution His fiancée (Dorothy Jordan), whose father is police chief, can do nothing to help him. He is saved finally by an unlikely combination of circumstances beginning when the real murderer arouses the resentment...
...Manhattan, near the Central Park Zoo, another hobo suggested to Ludwig Metterer that they "go over to the elephant house and have some fun." They yanked Elephant Chang's tail. Elephant Chang trumpeted loudly. Arrested for disorderly conduct, Ludwig Metterer denied the charge, said his companion (who escaped) had offered to teach him how to pull elephant's tails...
...between the natty law students and the virile engineers. When it was learned that Burnis Frederick and three other law students had abducted Miss Butterfield, taken her from Columbia to Moberly, Mo., the engineers were hot indeed. Three days later eleven of them set upon Burnis Frederick and a companion. Was Burnis Frederick a milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with...
Wings. His wanderings now over, Poet Jeffers devoted himself to following his mind's rising, widening gyres. He had already written much poetry, published one book. At 14 he had won a Youth's Companion poetry prize. A conventional book of love-poems, Flagons and Apples (1912), he followed four years later with Californians. In its most notable poem, '"Invocation," he addressed the westward-shining evening star that had led his ancestors out of Asia, across Europe, the Atlantic, America, to leave him, a solitary poet, stranded...
...first full-length biography of "Old Man" Scripps, founder of chain-journalism in the U. S., appeared last month.* Its author, Gilson Gardner, longtime Washington correspondent for Scripps and his frequent companion aboard the Ohio, had every facility for making it an authentic portrait, including the insistence of his late employer that...