Word: returning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming of the Soviets had brought poverty and distress to Old Swedish Town. How the Bolsheviks had closed his church. How they had taxed the little farms nearly out of existence. How the Gammal-Svenksby exiles had no shoes, little food, few clothes, and how they longed to return to the Sweden their ancestors had left. He saw and particularly impressed the King's brother, Prince Karl, Duke of Vastergottland. In a few weeks he had raised enough money to enable the Swedish Red Cross to transport the entire 900 inhabitants of Old Swedish Town back across Europe...
...Small roads, owned by industries, sent their cars far over big lines, offered little transportation in return...
...night after a woman had screamed "Don't touch me, Milica!" the Baroness Irma Molnar did not return to Starilec. She had left her estate on foot in the morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal...
...skill when his female partner breaks up the team. Long ago it passed from being simply stale to an honorable status as one of the great stencils of picturemaking. Long research has proved that there are two ways in which the shaken fellow can be redeemed: 1) by the return of his original partner; 2) by another girl in the company who has loved him all the time but whose sacrifices have never been appreciated until the night when, as he lies drunk, she takes his place on the tightrope. Dangerous Curves employs Solution No. 2. Clara Bow gets...
Milly Burden became pregnant in a small Virginia town. Her lover, Martin Welding, a nervewracked U. S. soldier, had returned to France after the War. Yet Lawyer Littlepage, to whom Milly was secretary, forbore to dismiss her despite her flippancy, her sullen desire to live her own life regardless of the opinions of others. Furthermore Milly reminded Lawyer Littlepage of his daughter, Mary Victoria. Encouraged by softness, Milly confided her worry over Welding's nerves. In return, Lawyer Littlepage had Mary Victoria, who was in Europe, look Welding...