By contrast, in "Little Women," that matchless novel of home-front life in the North, the March girls regard their father's war service not as a gamble but as a sacrifice.
Life on the home front, spent pursuing such apparent frivolities as song and dance, was his very subject, and in "For Me and My Gal" he reveals just how hectic and tormented, beneath the patriotic pomp, that home-front life was.
With demands rising, loyalty declining and new competitors emerging on multiple fronts, life has never been harder for the mainstream parties' politicians.
She was on the front line of life and death.
Mr. Greene is co-curator of the Newberry exhibition "Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North," which focuses on the war's impact on civilians.
Was always a threat up front, made life difficult for the American defense, did not test the goalkeeper when he got the chances to though.
Pompous, sarcastic and resistant to change, Arthur plays the tyrant at home while on every other front his life is spinning wildly out of control.
Restless in the way of the fugitive kinds to which many Williams men belong, Dick promises escape from the suffocating gentility of the front porch life that Heavenly fears may be her lot.
On the personal front, too, life has been made much easier for the graduate students.
From the tagline on the front page, 'Life's an adventure.
