Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember how he was stripped to the waist in the first instance, sweat pouring off him, and swearing heartily at the vagaries of putting ten shells where only nine should go. In the second instance, he returned the shoes and socks in good shape. He was a congenial wardroom companion as well, and kept us well entertained with stories of the fabulous man, his father. I well remember his devouring curiosity for all things naval, and was pleased to have him come to me with questions, although he was rightly a few months senior to me. After he left...
...country, the Air Commodore could take his share of Britain's war perils. He had the usual near misses, from cross-channel shellings on the south coast, from bombs everywhere. After a four-hour sightseeing tour through London's streets during a heavy air raid, his companion said: "As the Duke appeared oblivious of it all, I did my best to look equally indifferent...
...helmeted sentry crumpled with a guttural gurgle, presently lay still. Beside him a young Polish widow and her companion assessed their handiwork expertly, faded into the night. In sentry garroting, "it is better to work in pairs-a strong woman to do the actual strangling, and an attractive woman to divert the subject's attention...
...American Culture, edited after her death by Critic Van Wyck Brooks, includes eight essays. One examines the esthetic opinions of Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, and the culture of their time. One is an almost book-length study of the early American theater. One is a shorter companion piece on music. One is about the Shakers, who became "a folk" in one generation, then all but died out, due to their insistence on celibacy, in another. There are minor pieces on Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future of American...
...realm of action this issue contains a clearly drawn article on the practicability of preinduction military training, by Howard P. Hudson of the University of Chicago's Institute of Military Studies. Pointing directly to the advantages of campus training, this article is a worthy companion piece for Arch McClure's "Your Role in the War," the most comprehensive directory of military opportunities for college students that has yet been made public. A well known labor reporter has contributed a well thought out analysis of the future of student entry into the newly recognized field of labor relations, whle Uma Bajpai...