Word: warmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That every member should bring with him a warm overcoat, a steamer rug, an umbrella or preferably a raincoat, and rubbers; that while the days may be warm the nights will be chilly in Jerusalem, and that there are no heating facilities in the special dormitories...
Jerusalem has always been the town of miracles, a place where the beating of invisible wings can still be heard, sometimes, in the warm air. It is the town, also, from which the apostles departed upon their dazzling, dangerous journeys. No more suitable point of focus could have been discovered for those who are engaged in spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night...
...rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury...
...York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
HOME TO HARLEM-Claude McKay-Harpers ($2.50). Jake, a Negro, home from the World War, picks up a warm brown girl in a Harlem cabaret, gives her his last $50, spends the night with her. Next morning, after leaving her, he discovers in his pocket the $50 with a scrawl attached: "Just a little gift from a baby girl to a honey boy." But Jake had lost her address. So he finds new women, old drinks; becomes a longshoreman, a third cook on a Pullman, a quiet enjoyer of metropolitan fleshpots. In the end-Negroes, too, like it happy-Jake...