Word: partnerized
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...down with strangers, made himself objectionable with vulgar greetings. Spotting a plump girl with a full plate before her, he marched to her table, snatched the plate from her, yapped: "You're too fat already. I'll eat this." He danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior...
...Longwood. In the first set, young Frank Andrew Parker was erratic and his tall partner, Francis Xavier Shields, had to make most of the impossible gets, the titanic smashes that finally won, 13-11. Wily George Lott and willowy Lester Stoefen, smoothing out the soft spots in his game as the match wore on, concen- trated on Parker in the next two sets and won them both at 9-7. In the fourth set, Shields & Parker worked the score up to 3-all. Then Lott won his serve, Parker lost his, and Stoefen won his-for set match...
...other, Frank Shields and Frankie Parker played Vines & Keith Gledhill, defending champions. Shields and Parker took the first two sets, with Vines playing badly. Vines and Gledhill won the next two, when Shields was shaky. Finally, shrewd little Parker pulled his game to its peak and helped his partner run out five games in a row for the last set and the most startling upset of the tournament...
...Senator James Couzens is not a tactful man. Last week in Detroit, where he got his riches as Henry Ford's foreman-partner and his radicalism as a rambunctious police commissioner, silver-crowned Senator Couzens bluntly accused his home town bankers of pulling down their temples on their own heads...
While Mr. Lee looked on benignly, Chief-of-Staff Ross announced that henceforth he was a senior partner. Moreover, the rest of them were appointed junior partners : Burnham Carter, who joined the firm ten years ago and lately returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote...