Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famed sack-consuming philosopher and companion of Prince Hal, he was later ousted from England, migrated to Germany. His descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
...German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds to a companion or reader. Yet Wassermann's art is great, and, amply rewards people of patience and perception. He teaches a lofty philosophy of spiritual purification by experience. The central story here is of a sensitive German boy, pure in heart, whose relations with a matured man of his own type...
...Edwin ("Galloper") Smith, 54, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22), First Baron Birkenhead (1919), First Earl of Birkenhead (1922), has met success as often as any man in England (TIME, May 3). There are those who, reflecting on his delight in a cold bottle and a warm companion, would scarcely call his wooing of success quite "gentlemanly." But the present Secretary of State for India, brilliant, resourceful, has at least no false pride...
Perhaps, in the Kodak films on natural science, there will be glimpses of a furious, thick-maned, leaping, snarling, terrifying African lion. Last week despatches related that a companion of George Eastman, on his current expedition to the heart of the Dark Continent, had shot such a beast. If he was carrying out his own plans as announced, (TIME, Mar. 22, SCIENCE), Mr. Eastman was doubtless at the scene, cranking way at his camera from behind a bush. Mr. Eastman planned to hunt, personally, with cameras only...
They played it on the Corso, in the Bois de Boulogne, among the busses of Trafalgar Square-the game of Beaver. One walked with a companion; one saw a bearded man; one shouted "Beaver," scoring a point for every beard. Game score, as in Fives, was 21. The vogue of Beaver passed two years ago, but recently, on Long Island, a similar pastime started-the game of Babbitt. One drives the highroad, keeping a sharp eye out for Babbitts.* When a Babbitt is sighted, one points a finger at him, shouting "Babbitt." Babbitts travel together, and frequently whole games...