Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitch got me." Two men crawled over the retaining wall, dragged back a Marine shot through the knee. Then a mortar man 75 yards down the beach rose to a kneeling position, tumbled with a sniper's bullet through his back. The wounded man's companion popped up to help, got a bullet through the heart...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s novel-writing wife Beatrice (Blood of The Shark) disclosed that she had been getting poems from her hell-roaring husband, read a couple at Boston's annual Authors Club dinner. In the Woman's Home Companion appeared a Patton so-called poem, God of Battles. Opening quatrain...
...When Mischa Elman heard Jascha Heifetz's debut, he remarked to his companion, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, that it was a hot night. Said Godowsky: "Not for pianists...
Last week, Johnston's traveling companion, William Benton, vice president of the University of Chicago, told the U.S. what British businessmen are thinking. In a lively, anecdotal log in LIFE of the innocents abroad, Benton said his findings were that: 1) England has lost faith in individual initiative, has placed its hope in cartels (monopoly); 2) the State is increasingly important in the British economy...
Tussaud's had its beginning in the French Revolution. The original Mme. Tussaud, born Marie Grosholtz of Swiss parents, was an accomplished modeler in wax. She was friend, companion and teacher to Louis XVI's sister and lived at court at Versailles, where she knew the great personages of the period. After the Revolution her realistic waxwork was in great demand. She modeled many of the Terrorists from life, sometimes willingly, sometimes under protest. Once she was forced to reproduce the freshly guillotined head of a Royalist. A Royalist at heart, she watched for a chance to leave...