Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" are Falconetti as Joan, Silvain, M. Schutz, Ravet, and Andre Berly. The film was directed by Carl Dreyer and photographed by Rudolph Mate and Kotula...
When an American college student or schoolboy speaks of "the fellows," meaning thereby his companions, the other boys, he uses the word in an older sense than the Oxford man does when he speaks of the English "fellows." A "fellow" was a companion, a comrade, a mate, before he was a holder of a share in a college, an honorary scholar. In Bible times, the significance of the word had passed, in its general use, into the sense of a partner, or sharer, as in "Why smitest thou thy fellow?" and "a fellow also with Jesus," but it also...
...whose three weeks in Paris have made her forget how to speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends...
...tournament of 800 high schools. The crack shot is Norman Cottom, a sandy-haired forward who has scored 63 points in six games and bids strong to finish as high scorer of the Conference. Best player, by a shade, and the steadying influence of the team is his running mate, Ray Eddy. Purdue does not worry much if its opponents make points, so long as they do not make too many. Hence, the Purdue style is for the whole team to break fast, rush down the floor at once and shoot. Usually the defense takes care of itself. Last week...
...Author had not much reputation to stake before he went to Russia. For seven years after leaving Cambridge (where he was a college-mate of Author Hugh Walpole) he drifted about "from port to port," writing an occasional story, tutoring an occasional gilded youth, enchanting occasional acquaintances with his conversation. The War got him a job as New York Times correspondent with the French army. In 1918 he became assistant Paris correspondent to the Times. Unscathed by bullets, he lost a foot in a French railway wreck after the War. In 1922 the Times made him its official Moscow correspondent...