Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after playing three-quarters of their tune. Vag vaguely remembered something about a ten o'clock class, and hoisting himself up, he moved his tie one quarter of an inch to the right, straightened the little gold bird on his lapel, and started off with a long-ago-and-faraway look on his face. Floating up Holyoke Street and across Mass. Avenue, F. Scott Fitzvag entered a strangely quiet Yard. Harvard Hall, his destination, was deserted. It is now Monday morning at ten o'clock, said Vag, and I'm quite sure that I have been coming here every Monday...
...cartoons. In its Manhattan show, the A.A.A. has 46 of the recent best. Fitz cartoons can also be seen in the private collections of his victims all over the world. President Truman has six. The Moscow Museum of Modern Western Art owns some. Others are on view in the faraway Wanganui Museum in New Zealand...
...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Angeles, on ABC's unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...
Winston Churchill, who had supported the hated Act, was holidaying in faraway Florida, but Ernie knew his words would carry that far. "I regret he is not in his place," he bawled, with a baleful glare at Anthony Eden in Churchill's seat. "He [Churchill] is the father of all these troubles," added Ernie, skipping clean over five years of warm wartime comradeship. "This nation today is paying a terrible price for the stupid, insane action taken at that time...