Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking over the hedge into my neighbor's garden of prize roses when an Army plane roared overhead and I thought, I wonder what it would look like around here if that pilot planted a bomb right in the middle of that garden. . . Such thoughts are my constant companion and I feel sure that I am like wives and mothers all over the nation. Why is it, we wonder, that we are allowed to continue to go about the homely tasks: cooking the cereal, wiping the baby's nose, cleaning the bathtub, when our sisters in other places...
...they recognized each other instantly (see cut). She had married a wine importer, Michel Van den Bogaerde, and they had come to the U. S. Business got bad, and Michel had opened a small restaurant in Greenwich Village. To help family finances, Julia was working as a companion to Mrs. Frederick C. Horner, wife of the assistant to the chairman of General Motors. Her two sons were in school. The two old friends lunched, talked about Courtrai, 1918. So as not to spoil their reunion, they avoided the subject of Courtrai...
Also last week, President William Stamps Parish of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey announced a new synthetic companion to its German-originated Buna-Butyl. He told his stockholders: "We are in a position to manufacture the 'butyl' rubber from petroleum in any required quantities as rapidly as the necessary plant facilities can be installed." Building now at Baton Rouge is a 10,000 Ib.-a-day Buna plant for Standard, from whom Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has already obtained a manufacturing license...
...good, long record (he joined the Foreign Service in 1919, has served at Warsaw, Berne, Tokyo, Constantinople, Sydney) prevent Jay Pierrepont Moffat from being a lady novelist's version of the ideal diplomat: he goes out socially a great deal, plays flawless bridge, is esteemed as a dinner companion, is perfectly groomed, properly reserved. But because he traveled with Sumner Welles on his European trip last winter, has the British Empire as part of his regular beat and is one of the top policy-making State Department officials close to the President, the meaning of his appointment was plain...
...Politics Adviser Brendan Bracken, jerky, bespectacled, carrot-haired, is chairman of the London Financial News and an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook. As such he replaced Economics Adviser Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's Man Friday and chief traveling companion on the great appeasement junkets. A scathing critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found...