Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
...year-old Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, top place was well awarded for a finished performance. Remembering Laughter has a horse-&-buggy era, Iowa setting. Inhibited by his beautiful, strait-laced wife, spirited Farmer McLeod discovers in her equally beautiful but more lifelike younger sister a long-lacked audience and companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character...
Last fortnight Dr. Harold Elmer Anthony, expedition leader and curator of mammals at the American Museum, and a companion were hoisted up the difficult sandstone ledges by five experienced guides. After one night Dr. Anthony's companion came down - alone - to the base camp on the saddle with two "leaf-eared mice" which he had caught in traps. These turned out to be similar to other leaf-eared mice inhabiting the region. Hunters and natives winked and snickered around the campfire, hinted that where scientists could go animals could go. George Borup Andrews, son of famed Explorer Roy Chapman...
...which pious Mormons hardly ever refuse. Such saints as Reed Smoot and Marriner Stoddard Eccles are proud to have done missionary work without pay. There are today some 2,000 picked Mormon missionaries working in 23 countries, always traveling in pairs of which the more experienced is the "Senior Companion." A Mormon salestalk emphasizes the practicality of Mormonism, its orthodox belief in God and Jesus Christ, its healthiness with its teachings against alcohol, tobacco, tea & coffee, "refined foods." Once convinced by a missionary that "silly tales" about Mormons have been "fully disproved," a prospect is likely to be impressed...
...garb of Marquette, which was changed from a Franciscan to a Jesuit habit, as a student of history I am reminded that Father Marquette died near the present site of Ludington, Mich, in 1675, and La Salle did not start on his Western trip until 1679 and his spiritual companion was Father Hennepin while Marquette's companion was Joliet. . . . I do not find any historical record that La Salle ever saw Father Marquette...