Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continued to make his home with her in the house where he was born, on Washington's Seward Square. Two years later he bought a $25,000 house near fashionable Rock Creek Park. But Bachelor Hoover has never been seen escorting another woman to this day. His constant companion on occasional trips to the ballpark or for a weekend in Manhattan is the handsome, snap-brimmed FBI No. 2 man, Clyde Tolson...
...Ballad of Reading Gaol. Maybe, he thought, if books were cheap enough, more people would read them. Fifteen years later, when he became the publisher of a weekly Socialist newspaper in Girard, Haldeman-Julius decided to try the idea. He pulled out the battered old Ballad and a companion copy of the Rubáiyát, handed them to his perplexed linotype operator to set in type...
Great Big Promiscuous You. Lewis' new book, based on a number of trips to the U.S. and a great deal of reading, may serve as a handy companion to Poet T.S. Eliot's recent Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (TIME, March 21). The two men agree in their diagnosis of contemporary cultural trends-and draw totally opposite conclusions. The religious decline deplored by Eliot does not ruffle Lewis, who believes that "Christianity, as a unifier, became a bad joke long ago." The loss of regional differences and "roots," lamented by Eliot, is a joy to Lewis...
...inside two envelopes) and we inevitably find it a dismal experience to open it and discover who went this time. Not only does it mean something else that must be answered, not only does it involve further financial sacrifice, not only does it mean the loss of a drinking companion--from a purely objective point of view means that some unsuspecting sentimentalist is voluntarily signing away his freedom...
...might add that I have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...