Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target In a Trailer. Hugo Sims, who is a lawyer, taught-and he learned. "I'm trying," he explained, "to work out a liberal program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote...
...moment Henry Blackmer had put off for 25 years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer...
...land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
...help while away off-duty hours with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh got a present from home: his yacht, the Cowslip, which arrived in Malta by aircraft carrier...
Blitzstein is also a clever musical impersonator: at home in a great variety of styles, he turns out spirited polkas, convincing Negro jazz, grandiose arias, lilting quartets. Moreover, in Regina the music constitutes the actual train ride, not just (as in musicomedy) the stops along the line...