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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horn, play passably on the violin and 'cello. But to his father's despair he would go on scribbling music when he should have been practicing his scales and learning the dance tunes which would earn him a thaler or two and all the supper he could eat...
...question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted a 30-day stay of sale, stepped down from the block as the crowd cheered. Then up stepped Preacher Flint and cried to the farmers: "Most preachers teach us we shall eat pie by and by in the sky but here's a preacher who thinks we should have...
Ninety per cent of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews, who eat two pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string...
...Table Prepared) codi- fies, or as Jews say "puts a fence around," the Jewish dietary laws. These inflexible laws have been a major factor in keeping Jews socially cohesive during the centuries. The laws, however, have their sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish...
...Anthony, is neither political tract nor visionary romance; it is a department store homily in which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward he is Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking business with his wife and children, the picture goes into...