Word: companionship
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...James Ramsay MacDonald hurried to the Air Ministry, remained there more than an hour as bulletin after bulletin added horror to the ghastly story. When it was certain that the Air Minister himself had perished, Mr. MacDonald said: "To me no one can now fill his place of genial companionship and friendship. Only those who have been associated with Lord Thompson know how much the nation has lost." (He was a leading Labor peer in the House of Lords.) Down on their knees in the Parish Church at Sandringham went Their Majesties, prayed feelingly for the 47 dead...
After two days of this strange companionship Nightingale calls in a lawyer, makes a will in which he leaves Malory money to set up a laboratory once more. Then he asks Malory and the lawyer to leave him for an hour. When Malory returns, Nightingale has shot himself...
...away possible grade shrinkage While they are perfectly true they do not tell the story. For such prosate benefits make no mention of the thrill of appearing in print, of the satisfaction of playing a humble part in the molding of undergraduate opinion, and of the lasting pleasure of companionship while working for a common...
...very respectable European chauffeur and a lady lion tamer have for some years shared a home in Tangier. Their life has been one of mutual affection, its surface being ruffled only now and again by the petty incidents inherent to such a protracted and intimate companionship...
Studying electricity did not prevent Steinmetz from craving companionship. He joined two student societies, the first a mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work...