Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years I got over that stupidity, and always thereafter he was the chief and most entertaining personage. As a table companion he could not beat. To hear him sing the balled of the Three Ravons climaxed the evening...
...lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...
...hungry Athenians the historic heights of the Acropolis last week offered a mystic portent of hope. Atop the serene ruins fluttered three flags: the native blue-&-white of the tough, proud erstwhile kingdom, flanked on either side by the arrogant swastika and its impudent Italian companion piece...
Divorced. William Buehler Seabrook, 55, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo and primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); by Marjorie Worthington Seabrook, 41, his onetime companion in African exploration; in Newburgh, N.Y. She was his second wife, he her second husband. Her first husband married Seabrook's first wife...
Typical question: "Do you agree that a woman is ugliest when drunk?" Typical answer: ". . . if a woman is one-half or two-thirds drunk she can be a very amusing companion and entirely agreeable. Just don't give her any more liquor. And send her to me." On an average of once a week Jimmy throws his contributors a serious question on current affairs, but usually his queries are pretty jaunty...