Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic. I think my religion the most beautiful in the world. But congratulations to the San Francisco News and to TIME for their "account" regarding the priest ar rested for drunken driving with a woman companion. Archbishop Mitty's use ot the terms "antagonistic" and "bigoted," because the News printed the story, makes me both laugh, and feel a bit nauseated...
General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...Sept. 11, Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News printed an item saying that a Roman Catholic priest with a woman companion had pleaded guilty, in a Medera, Calif. court, to drunken driving. Other San Francisco papers passed up the story...
...Superfortress. ¶Its companion piece, the B32, which may be ready for combat "in the next few months." The A.A.F.'s excuse for two models with approximately the same performance: Consolidated (B32) will keep Boeing (B29) on its toes...
...Chinese soldiers blinked when a tall, ungainly, towheaded young Briton with bright hazel eyes and an Oxford voice introduced himself with a visiting card phonetically inscribed "Au Dung" and wandered through battle areas discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges with his companion. Novelist Christopher Isherwood ("Y Hsiao Wu"). In 1936 Icelanders watched the same outlander read the works of Lord Byron while jogging through their bleak countryside on a pony. In 1937 he worked as a censor in the Spanish Loyalist Government. In 1940 this unusual apparition settled improbably in Brooklyn...