Word: hebraic
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...orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger of scorn...
...Vagabond is the descendant of an ancient family of wanderers--some say of Hebraic origin, though this is open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that...
...late years especially, has been laid on the whole question of so-called "Nordic supremacy", there comes up more actively than ever the complicated and well-nigh insolvable problem of rare mixtures. Do, as a general thing, groups of people of pure race, pure race, pure Nordic or pure Hebraic for example, exhibit stronger and more vital characteristics than other groups which might be composed of mixtures of these two races...
Kosher Kitty Kelly (Viola Dana). The Jews and Irish are at it again, this time in cinema based on the play by the same name. Assorted gangsters, policemen, heroes, heroines emerge from the fracas in a glowing Hebraic-Hibernian conglomeration for the delight of broad-minded onlookers...