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Word: deeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep-voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Margolies' Yeshiva | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...evening of Feb. 17, 1926, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Ten thousand persons battled for admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Talley Finale | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week a rowdy, bloody battle broke aboard Authoress Joan Lowell's first literary ship, The Cradle of the Deep (TIME, March 18). The book was published in March by Simon & Schuster, playboys of the publishing world, who in 1927 promoted the bull-elephantine Trader Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CRADLE ROCKED | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...whopper-publishers sent forth The Cradle of the Deep as "autobiography" -truth, human document, veracious account of the author's first 17 years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CRADLE ROCKED | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...result of the whole affair seemed to be just a lot more whacking good publicity for The Cradle of the Deep and for Simon & Schuster as whopper-publishers, to whom any budding whopperist would do well to take his (her) manuscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: CRADLE ROCKED | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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