Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent appearances of Caroline, strangling her ravishers with whips and pointing loaded pistols at them from her naked hip, make this novel unsuitable for school study...
...mirror and stalking him along the country lanes. As for the demoniacal Mirbel, Xavier's love only puts murder in his heart. Poor, anguished Xavier finally breaks when the local cure smugly assures him that "Christianity is true just insofar as every myth is true." Biking blindly homeward, Xavier either throws himself before Mirbel's car, or is run down in cold blood...
...safe at night. The University police contend that closed gates deter thieves from raiding the nearby entries of Wigglesworth by restricting their routes of escape. In the long run to the Holyoke Street, exit, alert proctors would have time to make the tackle. Yet with Lamont open until midnight, homeward-bound students would keep the archway patrolled, forcing burglars to postpone their raids until later...
...days after Patrick B. McGinnis chided New Yorkers for "being satisfied to travel in the subways like pigs," homeward-bound commuters last week were packed like porkers into Grand Central Terminal (see cut), awaiting trains delayed more than two hours by a locomotive fire on McGinnis' New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road. The fire snarled 20 New Haven trains and 21 New York Central trains that use the same tracks into Grand Central. It was the latest and one of the longest New Haven delays since McGinnis won a heated proxy fight and took over the road...
KNOWN BUT TO GOD. As the former President (substituting at the annual Veterans' Day ceremonies for the homeward-bound President Eisenhower) turned and resumed his place, a soldier with a gleaming bugle sounded taps...