Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angelo Michieli left his native Italian village, sailed to the U. S. to make a new home. His wife and infant son he had to leave behind until he had their passage money saved...
...home was ready, three neat rooms on Manhattan's East Side. Most magnificent of all its furnishings was the gas range. Dazzled Amelia had never even seen one. Angelo proudly showed her how it worked, went...
...midnight came the end of Angelo's day. He hurried home, shouted for Amelia at the door. No answer. He pushed inside, was met by blackness and the overpowering smell...
Regiments of the Guards* are in the B. E. F., garbed far differently from the bear-skinned beauties whom tourists have seen on their chargers at Whitehall or clumping over the cobbles of Windsor Castle. Bearskins are at home, and the B. E. F. is clad in drab battle costumes cut like mechanics' overalls. They wear rubber boots. Their food comes up in thermos boxes. Their quarters are provided with elaborate drainage systems. Where bullets and bully-beef were their essentials last time, now they depend essentially on petrol and motors. Where being decorative was Guardsmen's principal...
Whenever a U. S. Ambassador arrives in Tokyo, whether for the first time or after home leave, he is tendered a dinner of welcome by the America-Japan Society, a frequent sounding board for the two countries' relationships. Five years ago Ambassador Grew returned to Tokyo after a furlough. The America-Japan Society's welcoming speech was made by suave, old Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, one of Japan's most subtle diplomats, then Privy Councilor. Viscount Ishii amazed everyone by saying that a war between Japan and the U. S. was remote unless "the U. S. ever attempted...