Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumor had already fixed several appointments: Pharmacist's Mate George Fox, long attached to the White House, to succeed the late Gus Gennerich as masseur, companion of the swimming pool and personal handler; Son and Marine Corps Lieutenant-Colonel James Roosevelt to become an unpaid, untitled aide at the White House, taking over some of the functions of the late Louis McHenry Howe; Eugene S. Leggett, acting chairman of the nebulous National Emergency Council, to succeed Stephen Early as press secretary...
Tarzan Escapes (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) has one striking difference from its predecessor, Tarzan and His Mate, Mate Maureen O'Sullivan, who once frolicked through the jungle almost nude, now wears a tunic far more modest than most bathing suits. Despite the Legion of Decency, however, Tarzan's mate is still "Miss Jane Parker" to the whites who journey into Africa to find...
...south gables of Kirkland House, the two dials are visible only to residents of Eliot whose windows face north on the cement court. They are not of much use even to those who can see them, however, for the eastern one is half an hour slow, while its western mate, over by Boylston Street, lags an hour behind. Perhaps the fact that the faces of the dials are upside down, with 12 o'clock on the bottom, might explain their unfortunate derangement...
...move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
...well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain...