Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home of the Brave. A gripping account of anti-Negro prejudice in the wartime Pacific (TIME...
Last January when energetic, 37-year-old Sidney McMath became Arkansas' governor, he decided to do something about it, called his good friend and former school chum, Alfred Bryan Bonds Jr., home from his job as training director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to help out as State Education Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something...
Noone was particularly depressed about the nonarrival of two complete home gymnasiums, one of which he assigned to a neighborhood boys' club. Telegrams and registered letters seemed to have no effect on the manufacturer. He complained to the network, and parts of one gymnasium finally have begun trickling in. Worn out in the scramble to peddle his winnings, Noone took a dim view of the producers of the giveaway show, who had promised to cooperate in collecting the booty. Said he, glumly pondering his bonanza: "They get you into their offices and make you think they're giving...
...swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years of public silence; poverty; a long and apparently hopeless engagement...
...movement, jumping, aspiring, etc. Probably otherwise under Czar." But such happy jottings were soon to be interrupted. At a mass press conference with Mussolini, Divver was jostled accidentally and raised a protesting voice; he was ejected, shouting and waving his fist, and at once became a hero back home. Too cowardly to refuse his accidental fame, Divver became Forward's expert on Italian affairs. Practice in the use of every advance-guard cliche made him, in time, an editor...