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Here is a truly extraordinary book, a one-man five-ring verbal circus, a phantasmagoria of wit, satire, irony, invective, diatribe, rhetoric, and pulpit oratory. The style is variously compounded of elements from Sterne, Carlyle, Swift, H. L. Mencken, and the book of Jeremiah. Yet, appearing now at a time of national introspection and moral house-cleaning, it should be a valuable book, entirely aside from its qualities as pure entertainment. Wylie claims to have been breathing the same brand of fire for the last twenty or so years, predicting the future importance of bombing and the black-hearted intentions...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 1/27/1943 | See Source »

...hair. On the eve of Tisha b'Av, he goes supperless to schul (synagogue), takes off his shoes, puts on his tefillin (phylacteries-leather arm bands used in prayer) and tkalis (prayer shawl). Then he squats on the floor and in the candlelit synagogue chants the Lamentations of Jeremiah ("How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, how is she become tributary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tisha b'Av | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...credit side must be put at once . . . [Churchill's] fruitless efforts during the five [prewar] years, his Cassandra-cum-Jeremiah period. Secondly, was his 'into battle' period, when his superb rhetoric and unflinching courage focused like a burning glass the latent will to win of heroic, freedom-loving men the world over, when all seemed lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Right Bower | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

When the first (Ickes) East Coast oil shortage raised its head last fall, John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, claimed that the railroads could muster 20,000 tank cars and haul 200,000 barrels of oil to the coast daily. Skeptics doubted it. Last week the railroads were doing better than that. In 44,000 tank cars they delivered at the seaboard an average of 600,000 barrels of oil daily-nearly half the East Coast's total consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Pelley Was | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...Pentagonal Hockey League champion wrote a number of records into the book that will quite likely be there for years to come. Under normal conditions, the players who set the marks might break them next season themselves, but Jack Riley is already in the Navy and Coach Eddie Jeremiah of the Indians reports that Dick Rondeau and Bill Harrison will likewise be in uniform before the ice freezes in Davis Rink next winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Dartmouth Sextet Leaves Trail of Records, Take Championship | 3/13/1942 | See Source »

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