Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homeward bound from Spain was Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, two years and seven months after his plane was shot down behind the Franco lines in the civil war. He became Nationalist Spain's best-known U. S. prisoner when his blonde dancer wife sent her picture with a plea for mercy to Francisco Franco and got the Generalissimo a lot of bad publicity by publishing his reply.† Said Edith Dahl in Philadelphia, where she is doing a Spanish dance number: "Maybe we'll settle down and raise a family." Also looking forward to Dahl...
After a hard struggle he broke through the phalanx but not until he had been subjected to the rigorous ordeal of receiving the pleas of the 47 lovestruck maidens. Before starting on his homeward trek he addressed the girls in a few passionate but well-modulated phrases...
...widely they patrol the Seven Seas the British demonstrated last week when one of their cruisers (her name painted out) slid up to the Japanese liner Asama Maru, homeward bound from San Francisco, just as she raised land off Yokohama. A shot over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed...