Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know now, and with a little reflection we could have known in the beginning that the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine is a task calling not only for the highest of statesmanship, but calling also for eternal vigilance and vast sacrifices...
...Editor Older was dropped from his clubs. His friends ostracized him. He lived in seclusion with his wife, ate his meals at a seaside "dog wagon," for exercise swam off a lonely beach. Once he was saved from gunmen only through the diligence of private detectives. Another time his home was almost bombed. Once he was kidnaped, taken by train to another city, saved by an unknown friend who wired ahead to authorities. "That story," boasts Editor Older, "went around the world...
...Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, and Dr. Otto Carl Kiep, counselor of the German Embassy, took Dr. Eckener by plane to Washington to exchange respects with President Hoover and Cabinet officers. As soon as courtesy visits could be paid. Dr. Eckener rushed by motor to Dr. Kiep's home where gemutlich he snuggled into a featherbed and slept from twilight to dawn, his first careless sleep in three weeks...
...hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...
Also in Minneapolis was held the first National Philatelic Exposition. Here were gathered, in long rows of glinting glass cases, $1,000,000 worth of stamps owned by 100 collectors. To signalize the event a model post office was erected where visitors could mail commemorative letters home by sticking on a lowly, uncan-celed, U. S. carmine 2¢ stamp, the latest issue of which celebrates the golden jubilee of electric light and Thomas Alva Edison...