Word: homesickness
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...chronically] lonely, homesick, timid, despondent, the one who never took an order in his life, the one who can't stand teasing, cussing and dirty jokes, the alcoholic, the bad actor...
Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...
...much money but a lot of sentiment went into a Seattle newspaper deal last week. Two homesick newspapermen threw up good jobs "back East" to go home to Seattle and try to make something of the struggling Seattle Star, bought from the badly eroded Scripps League chain for $160,000 (it was once worth around...
...fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African informed him that he changed to hunting boots and shorts for every Marais broadcast...
...House of Lords), he kept his Czechishness. A family man whose only hobby seems to have been looking at ships and locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...