Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Barrymore, whom they proposed to question in connection with "statements in Miss Astor's diary," that life-worn old actor immediately reported sick in a Culver City sanitarium. However, no screen lover but a sad-eyed dramatist was cast as Miss Astor's No. 1 partner-in-sin. Browsing through Miss Astor's diary, the doctor's lawyers said they found that she had recorded experiencing a "thrilling ecstasy" in the company of George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Once in a Lifetime). "He fits me perfectly," stated Miss Astor, recalling, "many exquisite moments...
...vacation on a ranch near Las Vegas, N. Mex., with his wife and one of his four daughters, Merchant Clayton returned to his desk in Houston to be on hand, like the world's lesser cotton men, for the Government's estimate. Lamar Fleming Jr., his young partner, who is rated the firm's No. 2 man, saw the figures soon after he debarked from the Enropa in Manhattan. Presumably the partners of Anderson, Clayton & Co. were pleased because a big crop means more cotton to handle. In the seven seasons through 1935 the firm sold more...
...Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never smoked, never drank, never swore-and does not to this day. He worked nights, sent money to his mother, put up with a miserable French boarding house in Manhattan to learn another language. Shortly before the company he worked for failed...
...readiness to clinch the wagers when Spotswood D. Bowers, Mr. Gerard's law partner, suddenly recalled a New York law which denies felons, bribe-takers and those who bet on elections the right to vote. Obvious to all was the embarrassing probability that Democrat Gerard would, if he publicly bet his $20,000, be challenged at the polls...
...Greene and Cannon went to Mr. Gerard's Manhattan office-Mr. Cannon wearing a large Republican sunflower in his buttonhole and accompanied by a guard carrying $5,000 in cash-Mr. Bowers was there to receive them with new instructions: Mr. Gerard had called his bets off. Said Partner Bowers: "You know how it is. A man in the heat of enthusiasm will often say something- well-er-ill-advised. Mr. Gerard undoubtedly feels as always about Roosevelt and would have made the bet, but he can't afford to lose his vote. As a lawyer he shouldn...