Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reid's New York Tribune. Since then, there has been, in addition to Thomas W. Lamont, internationally-known banker: Thomas W. Lamont, chief figure in the syndicate that owned The New York Evening Post; Thomas W. Lamont, a director in the Crowell Publishing Co. (Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier's) ; Thomas W. Lamont, part owner of an ephemeral three-cent Evcrywcek...
...learned and widely traveled President Emeritus of Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio). The relations of a sea-univer-sity's President with his students would necessarily be exceptionally intimate. One of many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty?after inspecting Punjab University at Lahore or a Norwegian public school...
Dogs. The "love me love my dog" attitude toward house dogs that are treated like human being was deplored by Dr. Minas Joannides of Minneapolis, who charged this intimate companion of man with spreading tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and smallpox; fleas, lice, ticks, worms and many another danger...
...next week, the Union authorities have announced speeches by William Jeanings Bryan, famous orator and Deaceratic politician, and by Mr. MacMillan, the noted Arctic explorer who was a companion of Peary's on his trip to the Pole...
...Tower Island-a weird glare on the horizon. Steaming in that direction at once, the Arcturus came to Albermarle Island, largest in the Galapagos group, where two volcanic peaks were flaming with "fiery cascades of lava ... an unforgettably magnificent spectacle." The photographers on the Arcturus acted. Beebe and a companion, John Tee Van, attempted to approach one of the craters on foot, were driven back by poisonous gases. Forthwith Beebe dubbed the craters Mounts Williams and Whiton, after patrons of the expedition...