Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the first international polo matches between England and the U. S. were played at Newport, they caused so little stir that a team of British cricketers, visiting the U. S. at the same time, did not know until they returned home that a team of British poloists had been almost within batting distance of them. Last week, when the twelfth series of matches for the Westchester Cup* took place at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island, it was the No. 1 international sporting event on the U. S. calendar...
Turner's sea pieces were the wonder of such stay-at-home fellow Academicians as Benjamin West and Sir Thomas Lawrence, who began by comparing them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral...
Coverage. Newscasters on the Royal pilot train throughout the tour of Canada brought home several tidbits from the tour...
...Home Consumption. Through most of this williwaw, one man who kept his head screwed on was MBS's Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, an oracle in England because he speaks plain English in weekly BBC broadcasts from the U. S. to 1,000,000 British homes. Officially summing up for the BBC on Saturday, Commentator Swing told Great Britain...
...London Times published a 32-page "United States Number" as a supplement to its regular edition. The 10,000 copies sent to the U. S. were snatched up in three hours, as amusing souvenirs, and the Times had to run off another edition of 10,700. At home, Britons studied their copies carefully, learned much about life in the U. S. The Times covered 150 years of U. S. history in four columns, which was 3 9/10 more columns than its issue of June 1, 1789, gave to the election of George Washington as President...