Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...created a goy." There is no reference to dogs in the entire Jewish prayer book. The prayer originated 2,000 years ago in days of slavery, legal incapacity for females, idolatry among the goyim. Goy does not mean a Christian. Goyim literally means a people of the earth ; in slang it means a non-Jew, an infidel. . . . Women were absolved of rituals and incapacitated to worship. Non-Jews, infidels, presumably never learned the true light. The last view is a bit narrow-minded, but characteristic of all orthodox religions. Anyway, it is far cry between "Thank God I am neither...
...solidarity of the Americas is that a great continent by the will of two hundred and fifty million people is a land devoted to political freedom whose system is cooperation, and whose supreme aspiration is to consolidate the reign of justice and good will upon the face of the earth...
...Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
Rests here on earth, for die it will...
Playwright Eliot's subject is the slaying of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.* In Anglo-Catholic Eliot's hands, Becket (Robert Speaight) stands forth as a tremendous spiritual figure who, before the play begins, has made his choice between Heaven and Earth...