Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time he is held up, awaiting a traveling-companion, in the fascinatingly dull little town of Saliste. To beguile the time he talks of Transylvanian history with the mayor. This worthy gives him what help he can, but has more immediate matters on his mind. "Round and round,'' says the mayor, "and round and round. Day follows day. It is so difficult...
...prospects, however are more cheerful in the inter-companion, hotel, and camp fields. Over 2000 circular letters have been mailed to prospective employers, and from these there has been an unusually high percentage of returns...
...find a companion to Charlotte as much as anything else that the new Cairn was ordered. Edward of Wales has a Cairn too, a snappy little bitch named Cora...
There is an excellent "Silly Symphony", which takes as its musical background an old-time hit of program-music called "A Hunt in the Black Forest". Its companion-piece on old phonograph records, "In a Clock Store", is the basis for the cartoon now playing at the Fine Arts...
...Seated at dinner beside a young, twittering debutante, he ate three courses without speaking. She, awed by her famed companion, finally nerved herself to ask, "What do you consider the most important thing in life, Mr. Strachey?" From behind the red bush of his beard came the high, squeaky chirp, "Passion...