Word: companionship
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...pick up news gave an acquaintance with Harvard facts and persons which otherwise a Freshmen would not have had. Writing articles both as a candidate and later on as a editor gave at least a little insight into the techniques of a newspaper. Added to this was the companionship with a highly congenial group of fellow editors which, nearly throughout my time on the paper and during the period of the presidency which we divided in the senior year, included Franklin D. Roosevelt. I am sure none of us them 'foresaw the world prominence to which he would rise...
...pass the evening in the relative comfort and sanctity of their rooms. It is a sadly warped social life that can include no private parties and that leaves a man idling away his after-theatre hour in a noisy cocktail lounge instead of in the easy talk and companionship that can come only with familiar, personalized surroundings...
...Harvard rooters were short of feminine companionship there was still at least one hand too many on the Crimson side of the field. According to a local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...
Starved for female companionship, Crimson cyclists have pedaled all the way to Northampton-to set a record of something just short of five and one-half hours-and in previous years have pushed and wheezed their way south to Wheaton. In 1941 they staged a high-wheeler race to the 'Cliffe in period costume...
Even outside the conference hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...