Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinderella Warner tripped gaily out of Harvard to pose for the Daily Record, a little paper in Boston, and to write of her escapades and escapes in the Harvard Union. Since then the subway rider wearily rocketing his way homeward, has been delighted by the slightly bovine features and Pepsodent smile of Little Kay peeping coyly at him from some twelve pictures. For the literate portion of their customers the Record has provided Kay's own simple story told in her own simple way; and it is hard to see how even the most hardened can help but feel...
...time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent to forget. There she packs up the Renaissance chapel of the Carnini family for a U. S. client, turns homeward, followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles on her son Deedy (Dickie Moore), decides that she wants him back. She gets a job redecorating the home of his guardian Phillip Lawrence (Otto Kruger), sets out to replace his fiancée (Betty Lawford...
Gene Vidal as Director of Aeronautics flew to Warm Springs last fortnight to show President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...
...Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water hop to Natal, Brazil, the last ocean-crossing of their homeward trek. Somewhere near the Equator they might pass within striking distance of Germany's seadrome, the S. S. Westphalen. The heat and Mrs. Lindbergh's homesickness combined to increase their impatience...
...breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned...