Word: homebound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folger, insurance man, is San Francisco's favorite amateur entertainer. So well-loved is he that his friends recently gave him a business and a secretary to run it for him. Last week he was homebound (via New Orleans) on a coast-to- coast roundtrip given him by the Family Club, a San Francisco comity which each year bestows good things on some one. To Roy Folger they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards...
...Editor Scott still talks of the time Woodrow Wilson traveled to Manchester to pay respects on his last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving to friends as they pass. On a homebound ride last week, after announcement of his resignation had been made, he carried in his pocket a message from his King, regretting his resignation, congratulating him on an achievement "which must surely be unique in the history of journalism...
...chopped off by the husband, as a honeymoon salutation. Before chopping, the husband had to qualify in bravery by letting his intended's male relatives shoot at him with arrows, which he dodged and returned. . . . Flora, fauna and pioneer maps bulged the Stirling party's homebound luggage...