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First article was headed "Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a," a phrase cryptic until from subhead and text the reader learned that "Tsaa-a" is the cry of the buyer of pigs in the great basal U. S. industry of Packing, which the article expounded, haunch, paunch and squeal, with impressionistic photographs of the Chicago stockyards in action by able staff photographer Margaret Bourke-White...
Gradually the exactions of the larger Football would stimulate every science, every research department would draw a little useful contribution from every course taught in the University. Football law, football hygiene the drama of football, football ballistics football histology, the aesthetics football there is no area of haunch knowledge in which the football could not make at least a first down...
...Rabbi Schulman refuses to name this 'stinking, tingling book' which is 'making enough money for its author and publisher as it is.' But it was recognized instantly by the congregation, which crowded around the rabbi after the sermon and joined in attacking it as Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* [reviewed in TIME, Jan. 14]. Mention in the book of East Side gangs, politicians and houses of prostitution caused Rabbi Schulman to say that 'the book drips in lecherousness and is steeped in sensuality.' To a newspaper reporter I pointed out that the author...
...HAUNCH, PAUNCH AHD JOWL-An Anonymous Autobiography-Boni...
...novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...