Word: companionship
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...play is one of Shakespeare's earliest and it is his most frivolous. A group of scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after...
Although this incident actually occurred, Smith girls will deny it. Like women everywhere the sometime recluse derides the story that male companionship--Harvard included--is at a premium in Northampton. Although nearby Amherst is well received, statistics at the big dances would seem that they Ivy man is in demand...
...down. All she has is the family's colored cook--solid in more than one sense of the word, four-times married, humorous--and a small boy named John Henry. These two are very comforting, but no girl of high imagination such as Frankie can be satisfied with their companionship alone...
...Chinese, says Grady, are "more than ordinarily brave," perhaps because of their "constant companionship with poverty and danger, caused sometimes by natural disasters, but only too often by human incompetence and cruelty." He reports accounts of several martyrdoms, both of missionaries and of Chinese priests and laymen...
...seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxi drivers, you must say-holding up two fingers-'On your way, horseface...