Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your magazine gets around down here: After spending a week in the public reading room of the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. it comes to me. My wife and I read it from cover to cover. It is then sent to Cumberland, Md., to my wife's home, here it is read by her mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent to Huntington, W. Va., where it is read by a man and his wife-and from there, well...
...Doubleday, Doran in 1928. He is the last of the old whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more so, and intimate talks with him (aided and abetted by certain refreshments) even more so still. He describes, apparently accurately, and certainly graphically, the intimate home life of the whale. He jibes with the sharks you mention in saying that killing whales at that time is extremely easy (though he deplores the necessity!). By the minuteness of detail I would judge that Captain George Fred was a close observer. . . . R. G. M. Flushing, L. I. Trumpeter
...like any German burgher: "I am in a hurry to get back to my wife and home...
...opening match of the series. Whether by some inherent strain of grace which prevents Englishmen from making final, unlovely exertions, or by some inscrutable play of chance, U. S. polo had again shown itself indomitably superior to British play. Since 1927 hard-riding gentlemen from the British Isles, traditional home of the polo-minded, have twice tried to capture the International trophy from the U. S., have twice failed in their attempt...
With such intimate revelations, Col. Theodore Roosevelt III (the late great Roosevelt was II) has come to the defense of the U. S. home, the U. S. family. His method is that of personal intramural reminiscence. Detecting a certain lack of home consciousness in his country, he finds that "It has become fashionable among certain silly people to rail at this greatest of civilized institutions-the family. This is merely a method of attracting attention to themselves...