Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear in Mr. Garner's 1926 Chevrolet roadster-only car the wealthy banker-cattleman owns...
Dressed in black, with a Cossack hat perched on her blonde head, Corinne had stationed herself in a doorway on Main Street at the hour when Dallas goes to work. There she waited until Brooks Coffman sauntered by, busily talking to a woman companion. Corinne put her hand in her purse, stepped out behind...
...spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging their high-strung son into a nerve clinic. When the wife agrees to employ an Austrian dancer-patient of the doctor's (Jane Bryan, with a phony Viennese accent) as the boy's companion, all their troubles seem about over...
...brown face wearing a beard for the first time (no one ever heard him seriously explain why), Lincoln arrived in Washington "like a thief in the night," with one companion, his friends having sent him on ahead to escape a mob in Baltimore. At Columbus on the way he had said in a curious, trance-like speech: "Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his Country...
...Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like holding your face before an open drain," but Woollcott is "an entrancing companion...