Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Major John Hill Prentice, 52, African hunting companion of the late Henry P. Davison, wounded veteran of the Argonne Forest, in his hunting lodge near Montauk, L. I., of acute indigestion...
...snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel out of a saloon, strike a companion with a stone, receive, in return, a knife-thrust in the stomach. He caught the sagging body in his arms, directed, after a solicitous inquiry, that it be removed to a hospital...
...marked out from his fellows by any extraordinary greenness of appearance and who might readily have been taken for an upperclassman if he had been satisfied to ask no questions, came walking up with a friend. As he drew near the scrimmaging teams he turned inquisitively to his companion. In a very loud and carrying voice he asked, "And which is Harvard...
...press of the whole country was concerned with Oakmont. Famed reporters wrote about Watts Gunn, told how much his style resembled that of Jones, his friend, companion, coach; described his nervousness before a gallery, even fabricating a ludicrous story of his attempts to turn off an electric light hinged on a closet door. Young Gunn played the famed Jess Sweetser. His 27 holes were in 2 strokes under par; his approach work was sharpshooting, his putts were as accurate as target pistol-shots, his drive was a cannonade. He beat the onetime amateur champion...
Jones' spectacular play began with his adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter...