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...second section, which included a laundress, the school teacher, "A Woman of Virtue," and a Jewess who discussed the Dreyfus affair, was generally better. Especially outstanding was Miss Skinner's teacher, a rare combination of humor and pathos which was carried off with great skill and understanding...
...this little journal, which is a continuation of his Journal of Our Days, published in 1934. It begins with Nock setting out by steamer for Florida and ends after his 1935 vacation in Belgium. His notations are casual and apparently aimless: he notes the appearance of a handsome Jewess on the ship, the drab, suburban-New Jersey-type architecture of parts of Florida. He comments on book reviewers and publishers, Mrs. Roosevelt, Anthony Adverse, Shakespeare and the prose of subway advertisements. Someone told him that certain South Sea Islanders permitted an unmarried girl to bring a boy home...
...Israel recently an American ex-Army captain tried to marry a Jewess. A rabbi refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper...
Died. Sophie Paschkis Lehar, 69, wife of Operetta King Franz Lehar; of angina; in Zurich, Switzerland. Lehar refused a Nazi demand that he leave Sophie (a Jewess), escaped persecution in Germany because his Merry Widow was Hitler's favorite operetta...
...Anti-Semitism: "People forget, or rather do not want to know, that our God made man is a Jew . . . that His Mother is a Jewess, the flower of the Jewish Race; that all His Ancestors were Jews; that the Apostles were Jews, as well as all the Prophets; finally that our holy Liturgy is entirely drawn from Jewish books. . . . Anti-Semitism ... is the most horrible blow yet suffered by Our Lord in His ever continuous Passion...