Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book progresses, stereotypes of pale children, bearded old men and worried mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that...
Physicians have long used medical jargon to impress gullible laymen. As far back as the 13th century, the medieval physician Arnold of Villanova urged colleagues to seek refuge behind impressive-sounding language when they could not explain a patient's ailment. "Say that he has an obstruction of the liver," Arnold wrote, "and particularly use the word obstruction because [patients] do not understand what it means." Such deceptions may still occasionally be practiced on patients, but this does not account for the impenetrable prose in contemporary medical journals, which are read mostly by doctors...
Barnaby, who is to squash what John Wooden was to college basketball, must have kept his words of wisdom to himself, or else Arnold just wasn't listening. If playing smooth, accurate squash is what it takes to get into Law school, then Kaplan can go buy his Black's Law Dictionary today. Arnold, on the other hand, better start looking at some good business schools...
Sonstein, who rode out with Arnold and Barnaby, said Arnold admitted he didn't belong on the same court as Kaplan, and after yesterday's match, Arnold proved himself correct...
...Democratic National Committee during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 campaign, later became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, head of the Office of Price Administration, then the ambassador leading the U.S. economic mission to Greece, until 1947, when he joined former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurman Arnold and former Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas in forming one of Washington's leading law firms...