Word: townward
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Half a league townward...
Huston's treatment of a dead German, his blond hair blowing gently, and of the 700-year-old, shattered little town and its inhabitants, is no less devoted to human meaning. As he shows them, old men. women and children, draining townward out of their hill caves, clambering bewildered among their demolished homes. or being extracted from under the rubble of a late-exploding mine or trap, war takes on great and complex meanings. And in one long passage, free of comment, while the screen multiplies the Etruscan...
Half a league townward...
...works on this, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage: "The war was ended. I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves of October seemed stained with blood...
...time to two minutes and fifty seconds, and my first attempt to trot him on time, too! Oh, I'd soon have him down to two-eight! I waited a moment to give an opportunity to any pieces I might have left behind to overtake us, and then drove townward with a smile of triumph on my face. I stabled the steed, and sallied forth to give voice to the matter...