Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, homeward bound in a U.S.Vichy diplomatic swap, the two ex-prisoners met in a Lisbon hotel lobby...
...American, driving a famed British scientist homeward through the London blackout, asked about the quality of bombs the Germans are using in their renewed "little blitz...
Wendell Willkie turned homeward from his Northwest campaign swing. The real news of his trip was that he had found in the West a road to Republican unity...
...meets her in a Manhattan bar and takes her to a show, the Lady (Fay Helm) is no phantom. Her handsome dolor is made the more memorable by a fiercely rhetorical hat. At the evening's end she drifts off without giving her name, and Architect Henderson drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda...
...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...