Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patriotism" and assistance to members in finding jobs. Dues: $1. The Black Shirts prepared to run Negroes out of jobs, replace them with unemployed "Facist" members. Atlanta stores advertised black shirts at reduced rates. The Atlanta newspapers were silent on the new organization, printing little or nothing about its mushroom growth to a membership of over 21,000. Fortnight ago the Black Shirts paraded in Atlanta to thwart a Communist Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meeting...
Orthodox rabbis with year-round synagog jobs last week started a selfish campaign against "mushroom" synagogs wherein a large part of Jewry celebrates Rosh Hashonah (New Year's day) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Those holidays respectively occur this year Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 2. Already many a rabbi without a post is canvassing unchurched Jews to buy seat tickets in his temporary schnl'. On the other hand the unchurched, after trying vainly to buy seats in regular synagogs, are seeking to hire rabbis to lead them in high holiday ritual. This is basically not very...
...complaining rabbis aver that the mushroom synagogs menace the existence of their establishments, many of which are impoverished, by diverting money. A professionally rabbinical argument is that Jewish law forbids the placing of Sefer Torah (Scrolls of the Law) in unsanctified places, like lodge halls, garages, dance halls, theatres...
...girdled green there bask the plains Where, with his timeless smiles. And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless...
Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...