Word: lodgement
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...which have so far characterized his holiday activities have now a thin crust of ice tinging their edges. In a so-white, so-virginal, so-hushed world, it becomes unseemly to talk loudly and vacuously with hometown people, to rush hastily from place to place, and to find final lodgement at the noisiest, the most crowded, most frenzied party-dance. But that is what everyone he knows insists on doing. And likewise he must...
When British tramps, known locally as Weary Willies, wish lodgement at the public expense, they do not apply for a vacant cell in the county jail, as in the U. S., but go to the local poorhouse where they are lodged in what is known as the Casual Ward. Here each one is given a meal, a bath, a bed, a nightshirt. The Ministry of Health after an exhaustive investigation of Casual Wards recommended the following improvements...
...messages between a Mr. & Mrs. Duckstein who were respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert's instructions the papers have been put in the safe deposit box belonging to you & Frazer in the Commercial Bank...
Auxiliaries. General Pershing addressed the American Legion Auxiliary (wives, mothers, sisters): "The enemy within our gates is at this very moment making serious efforts to find lodgement for his specious reasoning in the tender and emotional nature of our good women...
Clouds. Another vague and vagrant production somehow found lodgement on the slippery stairs of metropolitan endeavor. The lodgement will be temporary. The story tells of a shell shocked male and a sweetly suffering mother. The story goes that the leading actress wrote the play under a nom-de-plume. Which explains...