Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This organization, a subdivision of the Massachusetts British War Relief Association, is one of the few Harvard groups which has put forth any tangible effort to further the aims which the College as a whole has espoused. The money collected from the students will provide food, clothing, and shelter for the harassed sons of Albion. Everything from bomb-proof shelters for shel-shocked children, to rubber gloves for fire fighters will be purchased with the funds...
...such talent for moneymaking, an incautious enough heart to fall in love and travel with young Jewish Ruth Holland. Peddling toilet water (illegally) they move from Vienna to Prague, to Vienna, through Switzerland, to France, to Geneva, at times together, at times apart, in & out of jail, sickness, food, shelter and luck, at length to find relative peace, if not security, in the tolerance of a Paris which "had assimilated all the migrations of the century." Steiner has hardly joined them there when a letter from his dying wife draws him to Germany, to his own certain death. On money...
...wear & tear on your own; that a good-looking overcoat, though it puts off benefactors, also puts off police; that trickery, to succeed, must be simple; that the safest places for exiles are churches, museums and police stations; that an exile has three wars to fight, for food, for shelter, and against idle time; that the subtlest of his enemies is time...
Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
They have furnished patterns for orderly traffic, shelter, thwarting of sabotage, emergency fire fighting, policing during and after bombardment. Britain showed that it is better to prepare early than to meet the awful fact of bombardment with no preparation, and the War Department proposes to profit by British mistakes...