Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good road. He was nearing the top of a steep slope when we met him. I carried his load for the last lap of the climb and was glad when the ordeal was over. His luggage consisted of implements of war and the culinary art and my companion remarked that he seemed to "have everything except the kitchen stove.' He thanked me courteously, bowed stiffly from the waist and trudged down the awful mud slopes toward India...
First picture in the series was "Private Smith", the diary of the average soldier; as a companion piece the chaplain film will depict the typical "skypilot" as he tends to the needs...
...Somewhere I'll Find You" is the tale of war correspondent Johnny Davis, his kid brother, and their little blonde companion, also a newspaper worker, who takes turns in engaging herself with the Davis boys in all sort of friendly positions. The scene moves from New York to Hanoi with the greatest of ease, Gable busses Turner in every reel, the Filipinos and Yanks hold off Mr. Moto in an epic struggle, and everybody is happy...
...direction that fiction is taking in our age. Like him, she has used her not inconsiderable powers in an attempt to adapt the novel to a changed, and continually changing world. David Daiches' critical essay, the second volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature," is a fit companion to Harry Levin's "James Joyce," which began the series...
...Sage. The man who scrutinized the R.A.F.'s performance with the deepest satisfaction was General Alexander's companion in Cairo, the quizzical Tedder, who in England is accounted one of the wise men of aviation...