Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social drama, the play is gentle, perhaps slightly suggestive of the Woman's Home Companion. The cast is able, with Leatrice Joy Gilbert, the guest star doing very nicely, thank you, and a pretty lass at that. Orchids go to Ann Dere, whose fine portrayal of Katherine Markham, a difficult part, is the best performance of the play...
...League. He worked a few months more at the National Academy of Design. That is all the formal art training he ever had-all, for his special abilities and purposes, that he ever needed. At 17 he was doing illustrations for St. Nicholas, Boys' Life, Youth's Companion. In 1916, just as he reached his majority, he also reached the cover of the Satevepost,* which has since kept his bank account and his popular standing green. For the Post he has done, to date, either 222 or 223 covers, he is not quite sure which. During World...
...receiving line, an Army nurse became flustered, told him she was wearing a Navy nurse's uniform, had to be corrected by her companion. A WAVE ensign, Mary Elizabeth Birch, 23, asked him to dance. An unidentified WAAC tried to cut in, was shooed away by Secret Service men. In the midst of the party the Duke disappeared, was found in a corner talking to a group of he-soldiers...
...series of government posters sprouted last week on British hoardings, on the walls of blitzed buildings and behind the bars of village pubs. The series portrayed "Our National Heritage" with pictures of historical heroes-always bracketed with a companion picture of Winston Churchill. Political observers saw a certain significance: a newly glamorized Conservative Party digging in at the sources of political power...
...Most famed Bairnsfather cartoon: Old Bill, peering from a shell-hole crater in No Man's Land, tells his grumbling companion: "Well, if yer knows a better...