Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Scorpio, purple-shaded portrait of Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr (Ecstasy, Algiers), complete with a horsewhip, a rose and tinted toenails, by Comedian Reginald Gardiner, painted in the days when Artist Gardiner was her most devoted escort...
...understood that two of the prettiest chorines from "All In Fun," selected by a competent, if unofficial, committee of two, were to be called in to smooth out some of the simple dance routines. The same committee, it was understood, would then escort the girls to dance to the music of Al Booris and his orchestra, later in the evening
...American air observer (identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped...
Those two teams certainly packed a lot of punch and so did most of the rooters. (That's rather good, don't you think?) I'm so dumb about football--my escort (oh, no, I didn't go alone) nearly killed me when I asked him if those were draft numbers the players were wearing on their backs...
Presently the Free French escort vessels Savorgnan de Brazza and Commandant Dominé steamed into Libreville harbor and General de Gaulle broadcast from nearby Leopoldville: "Gabon has been on the side of the Free French forces since yesterday. . . . Marshal Foch and the eleventh of November are connected in our memory with the glory of victory...