Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children he would have something to worry about. But not Man o' War. Munching hay at his homestead at Faraway Farms, near Lexington, Ky., Man o' War, not quite 21,* had last week nothing to worry about-not even the preparations for his big birthday party March 29th-and he had something new (if he had known it) to be proud...
...Faraway Farms. Man o' War kept on munching...
...jubilation of the repeal forces the Cochran amendment was rejected. Straight repeal was voted, 203-to-129, and the bill was sent to the Senate, where its passage was expected. Broad smiles spread on the battle-scarred visages of Edith Nourse Rogers, Mary T. Norton, Caroline O'Day. Faraway looks came into the big, beautiful eyes of Government stenographers as they began to dream again of legal love...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...aspired to "wit, learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July...