Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cell at St. Louis Police Head quarters on July 27, 1942. A chunky, good-natured, shiftless Mexican, Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion of the brain...
Breath is everything, says Bovingdon, who took up dancing when he was 33, and ever since has made every motion a dance movement, including shaving, dressing and eating. Said he (Paris, 1929): "Introduce into an ordinary breath the yawn quality. Let this 'yawmzed breath' through its natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically...
...Blue's new owner is a ruddy, genial, voluble Old Blue (Yale, '05) who bought the idea for Life Savers from a Cleveland candymaker in 1913 and, with Partner Roy Allen, boomed it into a fortune. He calls it "a happy, whimsical little business." It gave him time to become the first chairman of Franklin Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, and to serve as his Under Secretary of Commerce. A better-than-average public administrator, he quit the Government in 1940 to support Wendell Willkie...
This is my problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...
After two years of smearing, the reputations of three of the fanciest supersalesmen in the U.S. were cleared last week. The Miranda brothers (Alfred and Ignacio) and their partner, Felix William Zelcer, had bagged $107,000,000 of foreign business for Brewster Aeronautical Corp., had been spectacularly accused of charging exorbitant commissions for it. The case had been lively reading in & out of the courts for 22 months (TIME...