Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noble House of Marlborough, it was a far cry from the great days when John Churchill, the first Duke, fought gloriously for England at Blenheim and Sarah, his wife, conspired in the boudoir of her bosom friend Queen Anne. Since then, Britain's empire had dawned and passed high noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess...
There were many in Japan who claimed they had heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...declared Mme. Anne Vilbert de Sairigné, and in gratitude her wealthy house guest had written her a handsome check. But when she tried to cash it she found he had stopped payment. So last week she sued for the amount: $400,000. Expatriate Frank avoided the press. A friend spoke for him, though not much: "A most delicate matter...
Picasso himself stayed away from the fair's opening-he spent the day turning out more pots and vases in a friend's tiny factory-but his worshipers flocked from far away to see what the master was up to now. Vallauris' Communist mayor sized up the well-heeled throng with a joyful eye, and announced his intention of making Picasso an honorary citizen of the town ("My friend the mayor of Antibes and his gang of De Gaullists are going to die of envy...
...nine-year-old play about a disillusioned veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and how he recovered his courage. McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a veteran of World War II, comes to one of the Florida keys to see the widow (Lauren Bacall) and hotelkeeper father (Lionel Barrymore) of his best friend, who died in battle. He finds them the virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s, slipping back into the U.S. from Cuba. Barring the pathetic...