Chinese retailers sometimes find it necessary to employ "chaperones" to teach customers how to use Western products.
Meredith Daneman conjures up the period, a time of chaperones, rules and obedience.
Young women raised in public housing projects, like the Supremes, were schooled in the social graces, and chaperones accompanied the package-tour bus cavalcades that brought Motown to other parts of the United States during the company's early years.
The 500 children who became trapped with their chaperones were in the Forest Falls campground and became unable to leave the area when the roads became covered in debris.
The 5Angels will have chaperones and tutors when they tour Britain.
Herbert's lawyers argued that, Sarah-Cecilie, now six, needed chaperones from the Jewish community to make her comfortable.
The boys' room had called the girls' room on the hotel phone — since they were strangers, this was the only way to communicate; the boys had got a list of girls'-room numbers from the trip's chaperones — and asked if they wanted to do a bangting ("room-meeting"), a type of group blind date.
Incidental Intelligence: In the Tufts College Ivy Book, some rules of the road on chaperones read, "A mother of a member may chaperone alone.
The solution is two weeks upstate with the Fresh Air Fund — an unpromising escape, to judge by the pair of white chaperones Velvet overhears at the Port Authority on the morning of her departure, congratulating themselves on their charity in poisonously smug terms.
Children, if they have any taste, will eat it up, but their chaperones will know that something is missing.
Along with the chaperones, they were escorted by sheriff's deputies to reserved seats.
