Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is your name?" said the official to Chance Stow's companion, a slinking, shabbily dressed, ebony adolescent, with a scooped face, pointed ears, piggish eyes and a gold tooth...
Edna May Wilbur, schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...
...this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury. Or it may even be that Nova Pictoris always had a companion which remained modestly invisible at first, and is only now recognized as the brilliance of Nova Pictoris fades...
Henry Ford, who has long possessed an Indian squaw made of wood, sought to buy a male wooden Indian to be her companion. He purchased for $100 from one Albinus Elchert, farmer, an old cigar store savage called variously "Seneca John," or "The Tiffin Tecumseh." This wooden Indian is a noted member of his vanishing race; he was made by Arnold Ruef, Tiffin, Ohio, woodcarver, a half century ago. In Cleveland, recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize...
Lean beef, fat beef, beef tongue, liver, brain, marrow: that is what two men ate and it is all they ate: for 21 days, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer; for 57 days, his friend and erstwhile companion, Karsten Anderson, whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...