Word: compatriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early riser, he generally went to breakfast alone. But he knew not the way to the Union and the building where he went to eat was in reality the Faculty Club. For four consecutive mornings he ate, unknowingly, among the pundits until a compatriot went along with him ont day and pointed out his error...
...intellectual and esthetic eccentricity." The countries which succeed best in keeping their ablest citizens at home are "those which have given free scope to their poets, artists, philosophers, scholars, inventors; adventurers, and other rebels, critics and innovators. . . . Canadians would do well to make special efforts to understand any freakish compatriot who seems to be receiving more attention abroad than at home...
...burn his early manuscripts and try his luck elsewhere. He picked the U.S. for his future. In New York he taught composition, served as a music consultant to BBC, and became a protege of Sir Thomas Beecham. In the past three years Sir Thomas has performed his young compatriot's Sinfonia and his First Symphony...
...last week, which, in itself is a notable event in Boston. But we digress. Two student officers from California were overheard remarking about this unusual occurrence, and one of them, in a truly democratic spirit, observed how delightful it was to have the sun shining. "Yes" replied his unbonding compatriot, "but the trouble is that here in Boston we're 3000 miles farther away from...
...drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...