Word: companion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Louis Bromfield, a young fellow whose first book, The Green Bay Tree, made its mark among first novels, put forth his second novel not as a sequel but as a companion piece for his first. It covers approximately the same time, the first quarter of the present century, and includes several characters of his first novel, including Lily Shane. He takes himself seriously and promises to make these "panel novels" into a screen, "which, when complete, will consist of at least a half-dozen panels all interrelated...
This is what Evreinov means by theatricality, his companion theory of the monodrama. It means much more than the art of the theatre. It embraces a much wider field of human activity, originating, actually, in life itself and from there ascending to its highest expression on the stage. By theatricality he understands the power of transformation which he believes to be deeply rooted in human character. To appear what one is not, to transform life into a continuous performance is the ideal which should be set up by humanity. To put it in other words to escape the misery...
...Vizier and the chief resident Spanish officers and officials. General de Rivera commented upon the fact that he had just turned over the Spanish High Command in Morocco to General Sanjurjo; later he issued a printed address to the troops in which he described their new leader as "my companion in arms for 33 years," and extolled his virtues...
...specimen: "It [the Jordan 'Playboy' Roadster] is a wonderful companion for a wonderful girl and a wonderful boy. . . . It's a shame to call it a roadster. . . . This brawny thing with the vigor of boyhood and morning...
Unlike this woman, Cantain Roald Amundsen fixed his glance unswervingly upon the stage, His lean face, revealed against his companion's shirtfront, looked like the sharp and stubborn profile of a huge Norway beaver...