Word: companionship
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Gawking Soon. Meanwhile, Ted Wells saw to it that neither Julie nor her younger brother John lacked for his companionship. He frequently took the children picnicking, boating, swimming, climbing. Says Wells, 58, who now lives in rural Oakley, 40 miles southwest of London: "When I realized that she had this gift, I felt that she needed some kind of antidote to the artificiality of the stage. I remember when she was singing at the Winter Garden in Bournemouth, I went down with John to visit her. It was a blowy, gusty sort of day, and when I asked them what...
...love. The major one, right at the outset, was that she leave Ireland with him as his mistress in 1904. They were finally married in 1931, but only to make sure that Joyce's family could legally claim his estate. Nora gave in full measure the affection and companionship that Joyce so desperately needed, but she could make nothing of his work. The first copy of Ulysses was given Nora, but she never got around to reading the book...
...record of the ten-day quest-a flight from Florida to Paris, train to Brest and back-comes with an engaging disclaimer. The tale is told, writes Kerouac, "for no other reason but companionship. This book'll say, in effect, have pity on us all and don't get mad at me for writing...
Lawrance Thompson, the New Hampshire-born Princeton professor and critic whom Frost chose in 1939 to be his official biographer, did a lot of watching and checking. Out of nearly three decades of conversation and affectionate companionship has come an eloquent biography-this is the first of two volumes-that will surprise Frost's idolators. Thompson shows that there was very little in Frost's style that was spontaneous; he had to whittle laboriously at his poetry to achieve his roughhewn colloquial effects. Even more interesting is the author's picture of Frost as a selfish, baffling...
...peace. May she be faithful and chaste, marrying in Christ, and may she always imitate the holy women. May she be beloved of her husband, as was Rachel; wise, as was Rebecca; long-lived and loyal, as was Sara. Faithful to one embrace, may she flee from unlawful companionship. May she be grave in her modesty, honorable in her chastity, learned in the teachings of heaven...