Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry to see my old-time traveling companion, my old-time sparring partner [Senator Robinson, 1928 vice-presidential nominee] going off without proper understanding. If there is anything that happened here today that could be greater comfort to President Hoover and his cohorts than the Senator's speech. I would like to know what it is. Nobody said anything about repealing the 18th Amendment. . . . If the day comes when a Democratic chairman is going to be dragged about and kicked around the lot because he expresses an opinion we'd better stop talking about the principle of free...
...chaste red plush of the old Park Avenue Hotel. Her insubordination was dearly bought, however, for she was proved mentally unbalanced and passed the remainder of her days in a gloomy asylum for the insane. Ella conformed, and as just reward for her restraint, became the moribund companion to a succession of poodles who in their mistress likeness have been haughtily flirting with death...
Siedoi in his wanderings finds old Grigorii, a human companion of his youth. Together they perform the task of herdsman for the village on the Prince's estate. Thus it befalls that Siedoi does occasionally see lovely Svietlana again. Meantime he makes the acquaintance of various village dogs, Katok, the all-around hunter who belongs to the peasant boy Fedka; Riabtchik, the practically insane watchdog; and Tsygan, a watchdog who absolutely is insane, having lived always and only at the end of a chain in a dark stall...
...fantastic instruments of control, is shown a nice old-fashioned love triangle consisting of two scientists and the girl for whose favor they are rivals. There is also one of the backers of the flight and the inventor of the rocket, an old professor who takes along his faithful companion, a caged mouse. Among the haggard caverns of the moon the backer of the party goes crazy and has to be shot. The professor discovers gold and is lost in a crevasse. The lovers stay behind to die on the wastes where nothing has ever died or been born before...
...unfair play on the part of both teams followed a series of interchanged slurs by the Harvard "Lampoon" and the Princeton "Tiger" which culminated in the Princeton-Harvard football program published by the "Lampoon" and bearing a cover depicting a pig in a sty saying to a much mired companion. "Come, brother, and root for deah old Princeton...