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...forgiven if this court makes use of the personal pronoun for the first time in a written opinion. I love the people of Alabama. I know that many of both races are troubled and, like Jonah of old, are 'angry even unto death' as the result of distortion of affairs within this state, practiced in the name of sensationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Inexorable Process | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...sends Judy Holliday to D'hum, pronounced doom. D'hum is a semi-Tibetan, semitropical country populated in its whimsical, multialtitudinal way mostly by yaks and native girls in hula skirts. It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a lady Jonah anxious to do good out where the East begins, but this musical is as funny as a tumbrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Poor Judy | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Harry Rogoff is 80. In a period of instant cookery, the Forward instructs its readership on the fermentation of wine. Space is still reserved for humor of a high Jewish flavor: "Sam: There is nothing better than to lie in bed in the morning and ring for a servant. Jonah: But you have no servant. Sam: But a bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Victim of Success | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...Jonah Kinigstein

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 102 PAINTERS TO WAX ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...When I eat sardines I sometimes tremble that I may be biting a Jonah from the bible of the little people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From a Hollow Eye | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

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