Word: companionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Margaret, the Trumans' 21-year-old daughter, was her companion in this quiet life. Blonde, clear-complexioned Mary Margaret is a junior at George Washington University, a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, a serious student of music. At home in Missouri she sang in the choir of Independence's Trinity Episcopal Church, traveled to take part in summer productions of the Denver Opera Company. In Washington, she had much the same sort of dates, interests, enthusiasms as other U.S. college girls...
Women's Home Companion. In Lon don, a physician wrote a letter to the Eugenics Review, complained that the reason there were now fewer babies in English homes was because of the "antisocial effects of genuine companionship between husband and wife...
Divorced. Sarah Churchill, 30, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force member, onetime vaudevillian, her father's companion at Casablanca and Yalta; by Vic Oliver, 46, U.S.-naturalized comedian, ex-Austrian baron (Victor Samek); after eight years of marriage (no children); in London...
...late Cleland Boyd McAfee's staunchly Presbyterian Scotch-Irish household in Parkville, Mo. in 1900-last of the Rev. Dr. McAfee's three daughters. She had grown up in an atmosphere of visiting missionaries, company for Sunday dinner, the Bible, St. Nicholas and the Youth's Companion. She remembers herself and two sisters as "perfect little snobs...
Youth's Companion & McClure's. Grown seasoned and successful as a reporter, Baker still yearned to write fiction. He wrote to the Youth's Companion to ask their requirements. The Companion, he was informed, wanted stories of irreproachable moral tone, with well-devised plots, which would not revive sectional bitterness between North and South, or between rich and poor. Baker began to write such stories, fast. Once, staying at home while his wife and baby went to Michigan, he sat in the half-darkened dining room on hot summer mornings, went nowhere...