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...they produce men of genius. . . . * "Why, then, have Jews been so constantly the objects of hatred on the part of their fellow men? ... If they are too clever for us and contrive to beat us in nearly every intellectual and commercial game, in spite of inferiority of numbers and dice consistently loaded against them, we have to fall back upon our numerical preponderance and upon our excess of brute force. Then we begin to envy and to hate them, and every one of their physical, psychological or sociological divergences from our own pattern becomes obnoxious...
...without sleep. This was because he lived with wealthy, sophisticated Tibetan Minister Tsarong Shapé, and was much entertained. Tsarong Shapé and his set, who lived in modern houses with radio and plumbing, liked to eat seven-hour meals, go to horse races, nine-hour plays, shoot dice, and talk about such things as amateur photography...
...most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London...
Selling even better than lead soldiers in German toy shops last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews...
yard end' sweep from his own 20-yard stripe, but he fumbled, and so no dice...