Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kipling's Rustum Beg of Kolazai "lusted for a C.S.I." (Companion of the Star of India) so avidly that he "built a Gaol and Hospital-nearby built a City drain-till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane." When Rustum Beg was awarded only a lowly C.I.E. (Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire), he got so mad "he disendowed the Gaol-stopped at once the City drain," installed his harem in the hospital...
...sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein, stirred anew her interest in the U.S., gave her the stuff for her last book, Brewsie and Willie...
...sixth grade, Alpine, Texas lad and his companion were keenly disappointed upon learning, at the Dean's Office, that application could not be made until the senior year in high school. Especially perturbed was Howe, who had just told Tommie, "They usually get you in this place before you're born...
Beer will flow copiously that evening, starting at 7:30 o'clock, when the editors of Cambridge's only breakfast table companion open their doors at 14 Plympton Street to all interested in gaining positions on the staff...
Part Score. Dramatically, Part I beats Part II all hollow. It is more tightly knit, it moves with greater speed and swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...