Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical, efficient, modern, unsympathetic. Enter a beautiful blonde home-wrecker, Mrs. Sidol...
...majority of these people are Arabs, who have vigorously opposed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, so welcomed by other states where the Jews are in a minority. The Arabs refused to vote for members of the legislative council. They feared that to vote was to commit themselves to the idea of a Jewish National Home. With the majority abstaining, Sir Herbert could only declare the elections void. An Advisory Council with ten official and twelve unofficial members, eight of whom are Arabs, was formed, as a temporary measure. Thus Palestine reverts to British rule...
...around flowed the busy life of peaceful, unsuspecting, easy-going Britain. The streets were thronged with men and women utterly devoid of any sense of danger from abroad. For nearly a thousand years no foreign army had landed on British soil. For a hundred years the safety of the homeland had never been threatened. They went about their business, their sport, their class and party fights year after year, generation after generation, in perfect confidence and considerable ignorance...
Israel Zangwill: "I told an audience in London that the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine is now in a hopeless muddle: 'The British have got a mandate without giving the Jews a nation.'" William T. Tilden, II: "In my new book on tennis I protest against the sports common in American scholastic life. 'Can you imagine,' I say, 'a group of busy merchants running out to the club for a bit of football in the afternoon? Will they organize their baseball team? Can you imagine inviting your best friend to "come...
Mussolini holds under advisement a scheme giving facilities to Italian emigrants whereby they may participate in the political elections of the homeland...