Word: boon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate of 40 a month, delivered like K rations by plane, ship, train or parachute wherever there are G.I.s to read them. Servicemen in enemy prison camps get them (through the International Y.M.C.A.) at the rate of some 100,000 a month, and in hospitals their lightness is a boon to the wounded...
...dancing, cards and conversation. He youthfully spent too much money in his first year at William and Mary (playing cards and sowing his wild oats) and youthfully resolved to do better the next year. But-unyouthfully-he kept his resolve, studied 15 hours a day, and had for his boon companions a great lawyer (George Wythe), a philosopher and mathematician (Dr. William Small), and the witty, gambling Governor Francis Fauquier...
...Harry Hopkins is "special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter, administrator, errand boy, good listener, executive, idea man, boon companion, and alter ego. There is no law covering it, the occupant need not be confirmed by Congress, he is responsible to no one except the President, and he can make the job what he will. When Hopkins quits (unlikely) or dies, the job will vanish...
...Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
...closest he came to putting it into words was in his famed dispute with H. G. Wells. In 1915, when feeling in England was bitter against he U.S. because of American policy in World War I, Wells suddenly launched on the unsuspecting James his devastating attack: George Boon, The Mind of the Race. This volume contained a parody of James's style, with this deadly description: "His novel ... is like a church lit, but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there...