Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inter-American Conference at Buenos Aires was so dwarfed when it convened last week by the towering fireworks of President Roosevelt's swing along Latin America (see p. 13), that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original...
Possible explanations which have been suggested say that they are to prevent trucks from parking there and rubbing off the while paint, that they are to act as a guiding light for Freshmen wending their way homeward after 8 o'clock, and that it is part of a carefully thought out plan having something to do with the slogan "Make it a White Christmas...
...bombs, red fire, a cheering crowd of 75,000 welcomers at Grand Rapids. ("Like so many Americans, I have spent a good deal of my life in close contact with Grand Rapids furniture.") There the Nominee spent the night at the home of Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Thence he turned homeward across Indiana...
...this little book the author of "Look Homeward Angel" and "Of Time and the River" tells us about his literary method. He writes and writes and writes, he makes lists of rivers, towns, railways, names, he burns with the desire to set down on paper the secrets of America. Sometimes it seems as though he just has to write, other times he can't write to save him. When he gets so many million words done he and Max Perkins sit down and make a book out of them...
From Buffalo, Governor Landon turned homeward, made 15 rear-platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri. In Springfield he paid a duty call at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. In St. Louis he obeyed another political tradition by publicly kissing a baby, 17-month old Joyce Rushing, daughter of a Carterville, Ill. barber, and exclaiming, "My, what a fine, fat baby...