Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STORY or A NOVEL-Thomas Wolfe -Scribner ($1.50). How Author Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and several others not yet published. An exceeding bitter cry that may throw a scare into prospective novelists...
Like Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River), Saroyan writes about himself, but in a more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound...
From Port Said correspondents cabled that the Italian transport Toscana had just passed homeward-bound "with 76 cases containing the bodies of embalmed Italian officers" and 1,000 sick and wounded...
Wending their way homeward yesterday after the tedium of an eleven o'clock government class, a group of Dunstermen were faced quite unexpectedly with living proof of the well known and well worn adage: "It's a wise child." On the corner, practically casting shadows across the monastic windows of Leverett's dining-room stood a young woman, of no apparent decision, waiting, perhaps, for a streetcar. Clutching her hand was what the biblical writer must have been thinking of when he referred to the little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though...