Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...application of erudite proper nouns, known as Psychology. We still like jazz but we have made it svelt and called it swing; we still like our women more or less naked but we produce a plausible excuse in the sacred name of "athlete." And while we seek a mate among nations to honor as a friend, we also seek a mate among women to worship as an idol. We do not approach her feeling the biological urge as we once did in the days of Clara Bow, for now beauty to us is metaphysical and intellectual. In our wisdom...
...given a very slim outside chance of taking the meet, but Babula, with 24-second 50, and 55-second 100 yard free-style races to his credit, will do his best to annex some points. He was seen here last week in the Harvard Interscholastics, and his team-mate, Gibbons, was seen here in January 19 on the Brown Freshman team. Gibbons, a short, slight youngster has shown extraordinary pluck and endurance in distance events, turning in a 5:14.9 440 against the Yardlings, after placing second in a 2:22 220 event...
...went out to the Riverdale Zoo, had a keeper install a handset telephone in the cage of chimpanzees George & Josephine, put through a long distance call to Castang's Chicago hotel. With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with a show of temper, roared a warning that...
Typical shots: Tarzan nuzzling contentedly with his lithely amphibian mate in their rock-bound swimming pool, undulating into an underwater kiss for a fadeout. Best all-round performer: Cheetah, the Chimp...
That was in 1831 and the trip was intended as no more than a temporary visit. It turned out to be a permanent exile. In Paris he met his odd mate, Mathilde Mirat ("the loving creature, who has been at my side and with whom I have been quarreling every day for the last six years"). And there he plunged into the quasi-Bohemian, quasi-revolutionary circles with which Paris was awhirl in the days of the Commune. Heine made German enemies by his polemical bitterness, French friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited...