Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubber wheel turning against a roll of tissue-thin paper. The wheel marked the paper faintly if the key was struck softly; fortissimos produced a wide mark because the force of the pianist's finger sank the carbon rod deeper in the mercury and intensified the current. A companion machine-the Vorsetzer-was placed at the keyboard to play back the rolls, reproducing not only the notes and their rhythmic sequence but also the personality of the original performance.-There was none of the wheezing monotony of the standard player piano; every eccentricity of the pianist's technique...
...livery stable and finally treasurer of the University of Mississippi, Bill had become the patriarch of the clan. The role suited him ideally. He cultivated a patriarchal mustache, dispensed eggnog to his cousins every Christmas morning and justice to a flock of Negro family retainers (including a hunting companion known as "Right Now For Bear" Doolie) the year round...
...prettiest sophomores chosen each year by the seniors), on her return from Europe. How has this incomparable green-eyed beauty defeated the fates that have battered them? Agog, the seven watch Lakey land with 17 trunks and suitcases crammed with clothes, art loot-and a stubby "baroness," her constant companion. Slowly these green girls (some mothers by now) come to understand that Lakey, the Madonna of the Smoking Room, is a Lesbian. She has defeated man by becoming one. Then, so help us all, they ask each other: will Lakey "look down on" them because they are not Lesbians...
...Rider Haggard, in his book, Mr. Meeson's Will, published about 1888, tells of a dying testator, shipwrecked on a South Pacific isle, who was obliged to have his last will and testament tattooed on the back of the neck and shoulders of a young lady companion. When she was rescued and returned to England, the will was probated but could not be filed...
...against Ware's neck and said: "I'll blow your brains out." The Sheriff then allegedly told him not to shoot. From this incident the State reasoned that if the Sheriff had wanted to kill Ware he wouldn't have taken him to the hospital or restrained his companion from shooting...