Word: homesick
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...sultry heat and weary after a long session, the members of the 87th Congress drove toward an adjournment that still seemed a week or two away. Last week's major Capitol Hill action came in the House. There, by a vote of 270 to 123, the homesick legislators passed and sent to the Senate a $3,657,500,000 foreign aid appropriation...
...that you could get $10 just for falling off a horse. In those days they stretched ankle-high wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents tagged him the "It" boy, and tried to promote a romance with Clara Bow. Coop cooperated: he shied at couches and dimity...
...From my first birthday," the late George Grosz once told a friend, "I was homesick for America." As a boy in Germany, he devoured James Fenimore Cooper, was not yet 20 when he anglicized his first name. But when in 1932 he finally settled down in the U.S. at the age of 39, his violent, anguished art turned tranquil. Grosz was so entranced by his adopted country that everything he drew or painted-landscapes, cityscapes, nudes-was happy and uncritical. He later recovered some of his bite, but his early German work remains the most arresting. Last week Chicago...
...Christmas for the local liquor merchants, and less than a week until Thanksgiving for those homesick freshmen who don't have dates, but for everyone else within shouting distance tonight is Yale night...
...Harlem, the densest concentration of Negroes in the world, is a world unto itself, occupying a fifth of Manhattan Island and stealthily creeping south. It is at once a dark and tragic slum, a thriving, neon-trimmed Main Street, a sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson...