Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though it has no connection with last week's marine horseplay, he is a Companion of the Bath...
...eyes at her; then she goes to London, tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets a job as companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole...
...strewn Buffalo Harbor on Christmas night a Coast Guard craft came upon a speedboat without lights. In it were two men. The coast guardsmen opened fire on the suspected smuggler, fatally wounding Eugene F. Downey Jr., onetime railroad police sergeant, son of a Buffalo police lieutenant. His companion escaped...
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman defended the shooting officers, taking their word that the speedboat was a "rum runner," pointing out that Downey's companion had plenty of time to throw a cargo of liquor overboard before the boat docked...