Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jews attributed the killing to a camp of Arab workmen. Two days later two of the campers were mysteriously murdered. Confusion was increased when one of these victims turned out to be an Egyptian Jew. The Arabs cried "Reprisal!" The Arab funeral, also orthodox and passionate, led last week to the lynching of seven Jews, the killing of two rioting Arabs by police...
...shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak with an authority acquired in 18 months spent in such widely separated military hospitals as Royat, Brest, Fox Hills, Cape May, Camp Dodge and Fort Sheridan. Edith's contacts with war-shattered wrecks must have been more extensive than mine...
...Savannah, Ga. Jerry R. & Mamie Steele Cox, Negro servants of the late Cinemactress Marie Dressier, used the $50,000 they got from Miss Dressler's will to open a combination night club and tourist camp called Cocoanut Grove, after the famed Los Angeles hotspot...
...street." Artist Blythe turned them all over to Gillespie's, got a permanent drawing account in return, never took more than $5 at a time. Unkempt, red-whiskered, hard-drinking and contemptuous of his new popularity, he was brusque with leading citizens, ran off to be a camp follower during the Civil War, died...
...Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic, he was made Director of Manhattan...