Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silk hats* and give chase. But the Americans held their ground. When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie, who the rut is this rutting...
Fatal Flight. Glennon at first thought he was too old to make the journey to Rome to receive his hat. But, thinking he might find the trip by plane more feasible, he took a test hop around southeast Missouri. A companion remarked that it was an honor to share His Eminence's first plane ride. Glancing out of the window, Glennon said: "It will be an even greater honor to come down with...
...because of the amount of liquor involved. In our March 1943 issue we ran a story by Craig Rice . . . which featured that hard-drinking little criminal lawyer, John J. Malone, whom readers of Craig Rice's books will remember as Jake Justus' boon and bar companion. In other words, he is no teetotaler at any time...
...star may look as if it were on its own while revolving around (and concealing with its glare) a companion star as big as the earth's sun. Such double stars give themselves away by appearing to wobble as they swing around their orbits...
...bright star, Alpha Ophiuchi, had a very significant wobble. After watching it for years, he had decided that it must be the dominant member of a couple. Apparently, it was revolving once in eight and a half years around a dimmer star. He did not see the "dark companion" -"dark" only by comparison with the glare of Alpha Ophiuchi...