Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless it is more blessed to give than it is to receive, and doubtless the consciousness of this fact causes many a miser, waddling slowly homeward, to ease his crusted conscience by tossing a dime for a beggar to waste in drink and debauchery. Such philanthropy is pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing...
Some of the works that "A. E." has published are the following: "Homeward", "Songs By the Way", "The Earth Breath", "Literary Ideals in Ireland", "The Nuts of Knowledge", "The Mask of Apollo", "Deirdre", "By Still Waters", "The Hero in Man", "The Renewal of Youth", and "Gods...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...
...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided on Maurice Drouhin, whose private plans were...