Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want girls. Since they can't have them, they smoke cigarets. The girls at home . . . their virtue not endangered, are nervous and miserable and want boys. Since they can't have them, they too smoke cigarets. So what happens? The briar pipe resumes its rightful place as the companion of the philosophic male whose gonadal preoccupations have vanished with the years...
Eureka! In Yreka, Calif., Mrs. Dorothy Hill, troutless after casting her entire collection of flies, plucked a pretty red hair from her companion's head, landed two beauties...
...eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
...easier said than done. State Department officials having heard that the Brazilian wanted to bring a female companion with him stalled over granting the necessary priorities. Conductor Werner Janssen fumed. So did the Brazilian Consul at Los Angeles. So did the Southern California Council on Inter-American Relations. Finally, at 2 o'clock on the day he was scheduled to arrive, Pan American Airways made an extra place on the plane, and Villa-Lobos and the lady were on the way. When they got to Los Angeles last week, a nervous official welcoming delegation was relieved when Villa-Lobos...
...atoms with deuterons-the heavy hydrogen nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...