Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 1:20 a. m. on the morning of July 26, 1938, Ray Bonta, a reporter on the Dallas News, drove Mary Jo Miller, Illinois physical education teacher, home from a dance, saw her safely in, drove off. Jaunty, dark-haired Mary Jo was staying with her brother, J. H. Miller, on Dallas' quiet Monte Vista Street. As she undressed in the bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under...
...night Ben brought home a book of tickets for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. He told Frances, his daughter, to pick one, and they scraped together $2.50 to pay for it, wrote on it, "Just Must Win." Plump, 40-year-old Pearl prayed to God that they might...
...their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...
...Relief Board. They paid their debts, set aside $57,588 for income tax, redeemed the precious things they had pawned. Then they drew a deep breath and cautiously began to acquire a few of the things which, in their wildest moments, they had dreamed about. Pearl got her new home ($3,000) and furniture. Ben got a Packard; Frances, 10, the whole set of Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they had fried chicken. But no diamond rings, no champagne, no bottle-busting, neck-breaking carnival for the Masons. Pearl...
Christmas means home, and to Harvard home means everywhere. Home of Pittsburgh, to Atlanta, to San Francisco, to Steamboat Springs, to a thousand cities and towns--that's where Harvard will go. Fathers will greet sons; there will be musings and laughter: "So you're in your Junior year! Well, it won't be long now." Church services, Christmas trees, and parties will crowd the days. Parents will hunger for talk, and give advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion...