Word: walls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps holiest of all in the vicinity of the temple ruins is the Wailing Wall, at which Jews constantly assemble to wail as follows...
Such wailing has gone reverently on for centuries and it is only recently that the Anglo-Arab police have interfered (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week their action in driving Jews away from the Wailing Wall was described as an "atrocity" by leading Jewish news organs everywhere. Unperturbed, the Anglo-Arab police prepared to keep the Jews at bay While the Mohammedan owners of the Wall proceed to lay an extra course or two of stone upon it-seemingly with no other purpose than to render all Jewry aghast at the sacrilege...
...March 31, 1924) he jocularly remarked that "the English in Palestine are no Angels"; but last week he appeared to have revised this opinion for the worse. Brooding behind his Muscovite halo of whiskers. Colonel Kook muttered, "The end is near! How can we endure that they desecrate the Wall...
...tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around...
Columns of newsprint recorded his achievements, mourned him. Editorial writers lauded him, decried his untimely end at 55. Among all these encomiums there was one dissenting voice. Said the Barron-bereaved Wall Street Journal, editorially: "His services were of the highest value and conditions today might have been different if his health had permitted undivided attention to his office for the past three months...