Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Donne, one of the greatest of the Jacobean poets, was the carnal, devout, intense Dean of St. Paul's. Of Death-whether in his famous "For-whom-the-bell-tolls" sermon, or in many poems of which this one (reprinted from Reader's Companion, edited by Louis Kronenberger-Viking, $2) is a-distinguished example-he wrote with solemn grandeur, and a consoling lack of fear...
...undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...
What this slogan meant, how it took root in France and invaded England, is the theme of this witty, intelligent history. Packed with anecdotes and character sketches of 19th-Century French and British bohemians, The Aesthetic Adventure is a fine companion piece to Author Gaunt's earlier, excellent account of The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy (TIME, Sept...
...good word that Cecil Rhodes' weekly companion on his journeys to New York is none other than the famed Count de Wright. "Junior" is said to have found his love in Gotham...
Fala, Franklin Roosevelt's shaggy black Scotty and near-constant companion, rode his master's funeral train from Warm Springs to Washington, was exercised at station stops by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Arthur Prettyman, Mr. Roosevelt's genial valet (see cut). Five-year-old Fala attended the Hyde Park burial services with his former mistress, the President's cousin Margaret Suckley (who has taken him back), cowered and whimpered at the gun salute, rolled over on the grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously...