Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoroughly annoyed, Carol threw his companion's mink coat over his arm, seized her bouquet of roses, and requested her, in Roumanian, to leave the wagon-lit by a door at the opposite end from that whence he descended. The cameramen, torn between the two good shots thus offered, exploded their flashlights frantically, cursed vociferously, literally stalked their photographic game...
Captain Noel was official photographer of the 1924 expedition. By the aid of telescopic lens his cameras took pictures of Mallory and his companion Irvine as they climbed up and up through the snow and ice over a mile away from the watchers. With oxygen tanks strapped to their backs, necessary because of the highly rarified atmosphere. Mallory and Irvine struggled on until they dwindled to black pinpoints in the camera's lens. At times blasts of snow and wind hid them completely from sight. Finally, 800 feet from the top, they were obscured by a stronger gust which lasted...
...still labor in too large degree under the lock step system, which makes substantially the same demand on the bright boy as upon his less able companion...
...Close examination of Reporter Mencken's short story revealed traces of the cacophonous word-mongering that was later to become so characteristic of Publicist Mencken's literary style. Youth's Companion readers were obliged, in this tale of dentistry, to cope with jawbreakers such as "apocryphal," "masticators," "lagniappe" (gratu...
...Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less accomplished countrymen as "snouting yokels." It had been written by an H. L. Mencken, aged 20, reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald; a lad who had informed the Youth's Companion that he contemplated working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three years afterwards had the city editor's desk on his newspaper, in five years the head editor's desk of the Baltimore Evening Herald, in 25 years the title (con- ferred by Critic Ernest Boyd): "foremost...