heating-rooms

Updated: July 12, 2026

Then the workingmen rapidly left the shops and crowded toward their kin, unless they had brought their food in the well-known blue dinner-pails that were waiting for them on the stoves in the heating-rooms. Such herd-like movements annoyed Pratteler's individual and democratic sense and offended his good old journeyman traditions.

Various - The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19