Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-eyed, schoolmarmish New England girl named Gertrude Battles Lane spent her last $10 to get from Boston to Manhattan where, on the strength of her experience as stenographer and part-time editor of the puny Boston Beacon, she got a job with the Woman's Home Companion at $18 a week. Last week Gertrude Lane died, a late-fiftyish spinster, one of the few great women editors* in the U.S., a vice president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., and although she had never asked for a raise, earning $52,000 a year...
Close to the Job. Typical of his operation was his decision when the shining new War Department building on Washington's Virginia Avenue was opened two months ago. Its broad halls and stately offices were a beacon for any man who loves comfort and elegance. Many of the civilians in the department moved to the new building. But Henry Stimson hung on to his old office in the rabbit warren of the rambling Munitions building where most of the Army's Washington soldiers work...
...national Sunday supplement called Parade, with content lifted discreetly from PM itself. Fifth issue of Parade was last week distributed to 700,000 readers through newsstands (5? a copy), such un-PM-like newspapers as the Nashville Tennessean, John Shively Knight's Detroit Free Press and Akron Beacon-Journal, Eugene Meyer's Washington Post...
...imperious walking stick, his haughty, traffic-stopping marches across Harvard Square, his pearl-grey suits and wing collars, his snowy beard (which he kept so, according to legend, by dippings in laundry bluing). One day (also according to legend) he presented himself, magnificently dressed and bearded, at a Beacon Hill mansion for tea. The girl who opened the door exclaimed: "Jesus Christ." "Not at all," snapped Kitty, "I am George Lyman Kittredge...
That is the way Dr. Jacob L. Moreno describes the life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...