Word: hithering
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Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad. By shooting only 35 feet of film (less than half a minute) in the studio, able Director Henry Hathaway set some sort of record...
...visited Washington (still rebuilding after the British burned it in 1814), was bewildered by the sight of a capital built by plan. "[It] is unlike any other that ever was seen," she wrote, "straggling out hither and thither, with a small house or two a quarter of a mile from any other; so that in making calls 'in the city' we had to cross ditches and stiles. ... I was taken by surprise at finding myself beneath the splendid [Capitol], so sordid are the enclosures and houses. . . ." Washington, she decided, "is a grand mistake." She believed the capital...
...Army Air Forces last week tapped the one group of experienced pilots that had not yet heard the come-hither of the armed services. To ferry aircraft from factory to airdrome, release uniformed airmen for combat service, it invited the 500 or 600 women with commercial pilot licenses, to give it a lift, sat back to await a rush of ladybirds...
...desk in the breezy, rambling headquarters building in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard lay charts, reconnaissance reports, intelligence advices. These charts, reports, advices were the hither end of a great sea battle-what promised to be the greatest battle in the history of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Leaning over the desk was a bronzed, white-haired, austere figure...