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Word: homewards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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While games, songs, magicians, and refreshments are a feature of every Brooks House splurge, Christmas means presents, and the committee has a distinctive manner of handling this, too. Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Unveils Plans for Annual Christmas Party | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

Empty Cars & High Spirits. Next morning, as the presidential train clicked homeward, the President was up at 5 to confer with Chicago politicos-Boss Jake Arvey, ex-Mayor Ed Kelly, Senator Paul Douglas. Later, at Willard, Ohio, a T-shirted boy in the crowd shouted: "What do you think of Senator Taft?" Truman declined the bait. "I like him very much," said Harry Truman pleasantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Like Old Times | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...flew homeward this week, Americans were still far from sure what the truth was that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stood for; but they sensed in him, if not rare truth, a rare heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Visit to a Mountaintop | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...give Tito's government the encouragement and limited support it needed to keep the rebellion thriving, without buying Tito's own party line. But Cannon had worked himself into a state of exhaustion and a case of stomach ulcers. Last week he packed his bags and headed homeward for a rest and a new assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Troubleshooter | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...book Lowry has now written the story that most American novelists write first, the autobiographical novel. The Big Cage is the account of the education, boyhood, family life, first writings and first loves of a writer. It is the recurrent theme of recent American literature, the story of Look Homeward, Angel, of Moon-Calf, A World I Never Made, The Genius, This Side of Paradise and innumerable other tales of sensitive, gifted and egocentric youth at war with the narrow constraints of American culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Third Novel | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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