Word: companions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the Christmas number of the Lampoon was written for the Crimson by Harford Powel '09, former president of the Lampoon, present editor of The Youth's Companion, and author of the Virgin Queene...
...cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion was asking: "See any Democrats, Colonel...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, "a religious maiden," and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in their possession. The gaoler, after examining them for evidence of witchcraft, clapped them into jail, where they lay five weeks. Then the religious maidens were shipped back -to England...
...rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...
...contrast, is "The Tarn," another psychological study, but in darker vein. Two men, one successful, the other not, one patronizing, the other resentful, walk in the gathering shadows by a mysterious lake. Suddenly the resentment of years surges up in the one; he strangles his companion, flicks him into the black water. Dazed, he stumbles home and to sleep, but dies of nightmare...