Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion stage is a kitchenless house. The food department, concealed in the living room, would include a refrigerator in the radio cabinet, an oven and broiler in a desk drawer. Enlarging on this idea in Woman's Home Companion, Dorothy Rosenman, chairman of the National Committee on Housing, observed; "Nonchalance will have reached the peak when, during a tea party, the hostess casually reaches into the desk drawer to baste a chicken...
...Gamble, the blind, tyrannical spiritualist, was listening to her hired companion, husky-voiced, Madonna-faced Veronica Thwale, absently read aloud from the works of Sir Oliver Lodge. Mrs. Thwale's mind was mainly absorbed in mulling over her favorite dream-in which her father, a Church of England canon, was crucified by a troop of Boy Scouts...
...Hunted. The two of them settled down in the hills to wait for the Navy to return for them-in two or three months, they figured. Tweed's companion wandered off. He got caught by the Japs, and was decapitated. Four other Americans had taken to the hills in defiance of a Jap order-surrender or be executed when caught. They were caught. Tweed stuck...
Died. Miguel Antonio Otero, 84, governor of the territory of New Mexico from 1897 to 1906, buffalo-hunting companion of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Kit Carson and General Custer; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
...attic study at his home, Laurier House in Ottawa. This is the real center of Canada's Government. He is at work there at 9 (and except for the daily Cabinet meeting and Parliament) he is still there at 11 o'clock at night. His most constant companion is an Irish terrier, Pat. The only man who calls him by a given name is Franklin Roosevelt (he calls him "Mackenzie...