Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Sir Austen & Family sailed a valet, a detective and one Anne Strachey (Diane Chamberlain's companion). They were en route for California and Canada, via the Panama Canal...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
...single room in which we were kept, together with robbers, bootleggers and the scum of the country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
June 17: Capt. Roald Amundsen, famed explorer, once companion of Pilgrim Nobile but now his bitter enemy, starts from Norway in a French seaplane with crew of four Frenchmen, one Norwegian...
...Guinevere was the disappointed Duke of Santa Mauro, who had been unable to get the Santa Maria, a Spanish schooner,* ready for the race. His companion, Enrique Careaga, went with the Azara...