Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...
...prosperous German Jews were forced to run a bloody gantlet at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was reported last week in the Liberal News Chronicle of London. Two long ranks of Adolf Hitler's personal Schutzstaffel formed the gantlet, down which the 62 Jews were forced to run. "As they approached between the ranks, a hail of blows fell on them," said the News Chronicle. "As they fell, the Jews were beaten further. The orgy lasted half an hour. . . . Twelve of the 62 were dead, with skulls smashed. All the others were unconscious, some with eyes out and faces flattened in. ... Police...
Dancing is forbidden, as is the company of women; only mothers and sisters are tolerated. "But the vows are in no way permanent," said Rosenberg, "they are just for the present." Frankly as an experiment, the members have considered forming a summer camp far from the influence of feminine foibles. "We have no motto, nothing as silly as that," went on Rosenberg, "and no vows of chastity...
This sort of boys' camp leadership of the people is what keeps the Beaver busy on his telephones and illustrates his idea of the publisher's duty to his readership. To millions of English "small-means men" and their families, it is the most appealing kind of publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over...
Centre of a sentimental homecoming celebration, Alonzo Stagg may have pondered the changes that have taken place in U. S. football since he was named on Walter Camp's first All-America in 1889, may have moaned over the low estate of the East's Big Three and his alma mater, Yale, in particular (beaten by Princeton last week...