Word: ome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold rush. Back in those good old days, stories ran under the bylines of Mark Twain and Bret Harte; the paper was so rich in talent that Jack London was merely a stringer. Since then, though, the Union has suffered a morose procession of 15 different owners and be ome steadily more anemic under each one. By this spring it was down to just 30 pages a day. Circulation was a slim 63,000. The paper was managing to eke out a small profit only through such stringent economies as cutting its reportorial staff to a grand total of four...
...brawling and uninterrupted leisure. Sex inflames him the wrong way. "Second time this week I've seen 'im kiss 'is missus," he observes sourly of a neighbor. "The man's a sex maniac." When Flo suggests a night out, Andy concurs: "If yer get 'ome before me, leave the lights on." But his long-suffering mate wouldn't change him for the world. "Don't think I 'aven't tried it, Rube," she says to a friend. "But bein' away from 'im is almost as miserable as bein...
...article you have combined Americana, politics, patriotism, religion, common sense-a deserved tribute to the inspired leadership of ome of our great men who must lead us during the present world crisis...
Rosa Lewis, the cockney genie who conjured up the Cavendish and presided for half a century over its revels, liked to think it was "not an 'otel but an 'ome away from 'ome for my friends." To addicts, "Rosa's'' was not so much home as a Mad Hatter's champagne party. They called Rosa the Duchess of Jermyn Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair...
...mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said, 'Both...