Word: companionship
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...father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred other matters. Uncertainty makes him surly and surliness alienates his educated children, hastening their departure and his decline from peasant-bourgeois hardheadedness. One turns out an indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins...
...feel confident that once men acquire the club table system, they will continue, because in the first place, they will have such companionship as to divert their attention from the common occupation of criticizing their food. And Secondly, when one men have eaten in groups, they dislike to split up and they can't move the table group elsewhere...
...carriage of the period and looked out with wide, serious eyes upon the Vermont world and thought it a fascinating place, "Having no brothers or sisters for playmates and with no little girls of similar age and tastes in her neighborhood, she nevertheless did not feel the loss of companionship, because of the devotion of her own play-loving mother...
Marie's daughter-in-law, Princess Helene of Greece, wife of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol, resides quietly in Bucharest, ignoring her husband's philanderings, comforted by the companionship of Princess Irene of Greece, her sister...
...some can play through the grind of procuring a doctorate and remain sane, interesting. Not even three years, when they should be broadening their minds, spent in fitting an esotericism in scholarship to their mental decorations can completely dull these men. Furthermore, they like university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency of a complacent world. But they are human. They want wives, families. And they want for those wives and families some measure of what other men are getting. A salary of certainly small compass is all that the university...