Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YORK--Madeleine Carroll, England's blonde gift to Hollywood, brought her classic profile to Columbia University today to find out why members of the senior class chose her as "the College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected...
...brooded. He gazed in distaste at his books, at Groton School. The reflection that his father was adventuring in the South Seas added nothing to his contentment. The bright sunshine increased his gloom. He fished out his wallet, thoughtfully counted $8. He turned to his spectacled, 13-year-old companion, Henry Wyse Distler, son of a Baltimore engineer. "Come on," he said abruptly. Without more ado they set off rapidly down the road, books...
...weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost their way, their tempers, and almost their lives-in addition to which he dropped his camera, broke his wrist watch, while Shipton sprained his shoulder hanging onto shrubs on a convex slope...
...vote on a great number of pertinent and nonsensical questions. By last week it was clear that the average Columbia senior expects to be making $5,000 a year five years after graduation. But if by some chance he should be cast away on some desert island, the companion he would choose would be golden blonde Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll. The scholarly reason: her ability to speak French...
...circle to the big, grey building, a smile on his face. The unpleasantness is over for today. A shame about that quarter, he mutters, but necessary. He has a better use for it than as a tip. He slips it into his pocket; there is no jingle from any companion coins. Squaring his shoulders and relaxing his features into peaceful friendliness, he attacks the gradual elevation of worn stone steps. Afterward he will walk home. It will be all right, proper. Today the best people will walk, and he will walk among them and be part of them. The arched...