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...scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...Copeland will read in Sever 11 tonight at 8 o'clock. The selections will include passages from Johnson and from Boswell's "Life of Johnson," Goldsmith's "Retaliation," and "Haunch of Venison" and the second act of Sheridan's farce, "The Critic." The reading will be open to members of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Reading Tonight. | 3/6/1900 | See Source »

...Group of Songs" and included "The Three Jolly Pigeons" and another song originally written for the part of Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer." Mr. Copeland also read Thackeray's Essay on Goldsmith from "The English Humorists," "Bean Tibs at Home," from "A Citizen of the World," "The Haunch of Venison," and passages from "The Deserted Village" and "Retaliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Reading. | 1/7/1898 | See Source »

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