Word: companionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once, during Liliom's death-scene, the talkative woman behind us turned to her companion. "Well!" she said, "I certainly shouldn't care to see this gruesome thing again!" Neither should we, if we were to sit in front of her. Some things are more gruesome than deaths...
...current number of the Harvard Library Notes is devoted to "Florentine Picture Books", and is an interesting companion with which to visit the Florentine Illustrated Books now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum...
...That every Harvard man be assured of seats for himself and at least one companion if desired, at the biennial football game with Yale on Soldiers Field...
...today is sufficient to see that before another Yale game at the Stadium, a new committee will have to adopt different rulings than those handed down by the 1910 committee. In the first place, every Harvard man cannot now be assured of "seats for himself and at least one companion if desired." Also, the Harvard football management no longer reserves for its disposal a "reasonable number of seats at the game to be distributed in the interests of the sport". In fact, it became necessary this year to cut nearly all of the Sophomore and Freshman applications to one seat...
...stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing for the first page or two that she wore the sort of costume commonly attributed to the inhabitants of lonely tropical islands? Mr. Chambers...