Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster saint of a woman; her occasional distress arouses little sympathy, and her mishaps, due largely to a complete lack...
...seems that Rita had been rather rough in her treatment of Heman Haggerty, for whom, by the way, matters are further complicated by the presence of a wife in an insane asylum. Though he will not divorce the companion of his early struggles, nevertheless he loves Rita and has hit upon a novel way of bringing her to her knees. It turns out to be Haggerty who engineered the corner in the stock market which is threatening to ruin her father. Since Haggerty is the only one who can save the old man, Rita sends for him and informs...
Died. The Earl of Warwick, 71, husband of the "Red Countess" and companion of the late President Roosevelt in big game hunting; at Beer, Devonshire...
...There is more to be gained from division by halls than from segregation by classes," said Mr. David Lindsay Keir. Exchange Tutor from University College, Oxford, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. His companion at the time, Mr. Clarence Crane Brinton '19, who has studied at New College, Oxford, said, "I have lived under both systems, and I must admit that Oxford is more democratic than Harvard...
...into a court last Spring and charged with a civil offense. A friend passed him a revolver with which he intimidated the court and the crowd and made good his escape. Months later he was discovered in a house in Harbin and after a desperate fight, in which his companion and the latter's wife were killed, Kornilov was rearrested...