Word: homing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Counting "uhhs" and "ohs" the Hero's words totaled 57. Defeated, discouraged, "Red" Dolan went away, wrote home to his paper that Mrs. Lindbergh must have been seasick because she was lying down. The News carried a castigating editorial, titled "Shrinking Lindy." The honeymooners continued eastward...
Traditionally old have been the buildings in which famed newspapers started life. Usually they were fire traps. Always they were filled with more "atmosphere" than cleanliness, more musty files than modern conveniences. . . . Such a building was the ramshackle, rickety home of the Chicago Daily News. Its dim-lighted rooms, its narrow hallways, saw the birth of the Daily News-a tiny newspaper-in 1875, watched that newspaper grow to its circulation today of 450,000, local evening rival of The World's Greatest Newspaper (blatant Chicago morning Tribune...
...Robert Clynes Secretary of State for Home Affairs...
...tiny hamlets of Campitello. Pagani and Avino, first in the flood's path, were wiped out. Over vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed...
...Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King Zog's coronation last year, only the expressed intention of genuine Scanderbeg descendants to slit Zog's royal gullet dissuaded the new King from adopting the title of Scanderbeg...