Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor. Her present piece is no exception, although for a time it looked as though Lucile Lingard (Lily Cahill), who found romance and a young English poet while visiting Europe, might let Miss Crothers down. But when Lucile, and later the poet, return to the solidarity of the homeland, and when Lucile's husband so patently demonstrates his "great, selfless love," the affair subsides...
Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, zealous worker for the Jewish Palestine Homeland, No. 1 U. S. rabbi, collapsed from nervous indigestion and overwork at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, N. Y., whence he had gone, for seclusion and rest. His attending physician announced that Rabbi Wise was "withdrawing indefinitely" from all duties, would probably not attend the Palestine conference at London...
...plane and its crew flew on to Chicago for the national air races (see p. 47). With them as interpreter went their homeland friend, Fraulein Hertha Seelemann-Mirow, a pilot of the aviation department of the Hamburg-American Line. The return to Germany will be by steamer...
Capt. von Gronau and his students reached Reykjavik, Iceland via the Faroe Islands in routine order, ostentatiously prepared to "fly back to Germany." But the captain refused to accept letters addressed to his homeland. An hour after their departure, Capt. von Gronau radioed to an astounded family, school and Transportation Ministry that he was headed west. Soon the plane reached Ivigtut, Greenland, pushed on to Cartwright Bay, Labrador, was forced down by rain at Queensport Harbor, N. S.; there waited for clear weather to fly to New York. Back at List, envious left-behind students crowded the inns, "Hoched"' their...
...shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among the lily pads of his homeland...