Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone questions the ethical importance of the modern novel, the least any reader can say is that Mr. Washburn displays a diabolical clever...
...will do ten days after Rosh Hashonah -on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), which begins at sunset Sept. 23. It is a vigil of fasting and repentance, to be concluded with the cry: "May he who maketh peace in his high places, make peace for us and for all Israel; and say ye, Amen...
Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...
...troupe of religiously mixed actors is to leave Manhattan in October. On schedule are 100 two-reel stories, some with dialog, some without. Some titles: "Abel, the Shepherd of Eden," "Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt," "David, the Shepherd King," "Ruth, the Widow of Moab," "Isaiah, the Poet-Prophet of Israel...
...success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...