Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...
...reporters. But a Brazilian newspaper, Diario de Noticias of Rio de Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind its U. S. publication date...
...investors were thinking about rail stocks once more. The reason was not the simple fact that the defense boom was catching up with the rails, upping their nine-month revenues 9% (to $3,125,855,000) over the same period of 1939. It was barely suggested by the companion fact that when rail net rises above the break-even (interest-covering) point, leverage raises it much faster than the gross. The 9% increase in gross served as a lever on which 137 of the roads hoisted their combined...
...Greenough did not let herself intrude a little more into her book--that she relied so much on documentation, and not enough on personal observation. This is particularly regret table when one sees with what easy charm she handles the sections on C.N.G. as Uncle Toby, the ideal companion to his adoring step-children...
Also printed as a companion to the biography is a valuable collection of studies published by Professor Greenough at different time during his active life in the field of letters. These are a sure testimony to the real scholarship of the man--a quality one is apt to forget in the overwhelming realization of his essential humanness...