Word: companioner
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...party before the game at 33 Dunster St.... When we last saw Kirkland House junior Steve Larkin, he had won a trip for two to Bermuda with his half-court shot at halftime in the Brown game. He was formally presented with his Bermuda Shoot laurels Saturday. His companion? Roommate Kirk Mundy, "who dragged me to the game in the first place." Bon voyage, guys...
Walking along the beach at Madruga the hour just before dawn, companion only to darting lizards and the waves, Franz awoke in a dream where everything was purple, gray, black, invisible...
...Yorker [Jan. 12]. The occasional chuckle or pleasure experienced in coming upon an engrossing piece does not compensate any longer for the exasperation generated by plowing through all those slick, expensive pages of prolix maunderings. It's very sad, somewhat like losing a bright, witty and interesting companion to stroke and senility...
Dear Abby: I am a divorced woman in my early 40s. Where can I find a man ... who would like an attractive companion for dinner and the movies without expecting sex afterwards? I can't afford to travel far. It seems that all the eligible men in the northern part of New Jersey expect sex after an evening's entertainment...
Fifty years ago, Critic D.B. Wyndham Lewis compiled an anthology of hilariously (and unintentionally) bad verse entitled The Stuffed Owl. Today an enterprising editor could produce a companion Owl stuffed with bad prose. High on the list should be selections from Oriana Fallaci's nonfiction novel A Man. The title is the last instance of unmannered writing to be encountered until the reader emerges at the other end, covered with tropes...