Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Learned Coal Man. For entertainment of another kind, London music lovers in 1678 went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed...
...From Jerusalem, the Arab Higher Committee invited the Arab and Islamic worlds to demonstrate Oct. 3 for an Arab Palestine. The Moslem League paper Dawn pleaded for a united Moslem front for 5,000 miles, from Morocco to the Punjab, called on Moslems to stand together "like bricks in a wall...
...canvas lay unrolled like a rug on the floor. Pushing up his horn-rimmed spectacles, the auctioneer eyed Christ's Entry into Jerusalem dubiously and wondered out loud whether it would bring $100 or $10,000. "Somebody might want it for a church," he mused hopefully, "and then again a dealer might want to cut it up into handy-size...
...minutes everyone in the area was rounded up for questioning. The curfew was on again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...
Scarcely were the terrorists' bodies buried than British troops began patrolling Zion Square in Jerusalem. The British had heard that the Irgun Zvai Leumi would try to hang, from the square's lone tree, two 20-year-old British sergeants it had captured as hostages...