Word: hebraic
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...Hebraic incantations of Elohim and Adonai a sacred promise was made in Detroit one night last week. The Jew Sender ben Henie swore before Jehovah that, if his unborn child should be a girl, he would marry her to the son of his faithful neighbor Nissen. But Nissen died leaving his son poor while Sender grew rich and increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years...
...stricken with infantile paralysis, which rendered his legs almost useless. As a result, he was forced to give up his vocation of fire insurance inspector, and so turned his attention to various Asiatic languages. He now has a reading knowledge of Sanskrit, Hindustani, Persian, Hebraic, and a profound understanding of Arabic...
...Hebraic features for Jewish children and similar Hebraic figures for showing off clothes in the windows of Jewish shops." Next day Jews received another blow from Germans as distinguished from Nazis. Ousted from their eight stock exchanges were all Jewish floor brokers by order of the German Old Guard's Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...beautiful piece of satire on the RFC and the men who run it. Of the two professors who come to investigate Benny, his partner, and their staff of six hotcha girls who run the Black Creek Railroad, one is a professor of anthropology at Columbia, and the other of Hebraic Languages at Harvard. These trusted scholars are delightfully duped by Benny and friends until they are accosted by a man who says that he is an agent for the Department of Justice, whereupon one of the chorus girls pipes up "What's Justice?" When the Justice man informs Benny that...
...Hebrew to raise himself above the despised position which an ever intolerant society has stamped upon the race, but there never has been one which possessed the strength and beauty which "Power" presents. After a plodding, unceasing rise to power, the Jew Suss learns that he is not really Hebraic, his father having been a prominent Christian soldier. This discovery does not break his resolve, and to the bitter end, through a mass of trials enough to overwhelm any but the superhuman, Suss holds to his adopted race. His predominance has become too great and in a final scene...