Word: jerichos
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Last week, in a novel called Seek-No-Further, Author Constance Robertson told the story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners...
...know damned well that, if they told me today I'd have to go through at noon tomorrow what I've been through already, I'd jump right out of this bed and run from here to Jericho...
...they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike and Plainview Road for the first of the famed Vanderbilt Cup Races, the eleventh of which will take place next week at Roosevelt Raceway...
...music? I don't know what to say about it. I love it, I love to play it, and I love to hear it!" Such was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's eminently satisfactory comment on the Art of the Hour, Swing Music. The greatest trumpeter since that day at Jericho when "The people heard the sound of the trumpet and the wall fell down flat." (Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over...
...goals in ratio to their ability. To enter the Open, a team's four members must have a total handicap of 21 goals or better. In the whole world, only that minute corner of Long Island bounded on the north by the Sound, on the east by Jericho, on the south by Westbury and on the west by Port Washington has ever been able to furnish seven such teams at the same time...