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...saving him from his own blunder. When that time comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...
...special attention to his love affairs. Translated into English three years ago, it was passed by the Federal Censor but set upon by many a guardian of local morals. Last week a New York City court ruled that Novembre is not "objectionable literature," refused to ban it. Said Magistrate Jonah Goldstein: "The criterion of decency is fixed by time, place, geography and all the elements that make for a constantly changing world. . . . The practice of bundling, approved in Puritan days, would be frowned upon today. . . . In 1906 the play Sappho was suppressed because the leading lady was carried...
...Against this traitor Venizelos we have invoked the following injuries: the ulcers of Job, the whale of Jonah, the leprosy of Naaman, the bite of Death, the shivering of the dying, the thunderbolt of Hell, and the malediction of God and man. We shall call for the same injuries upon those who at the coming elections shall vote for the Traitor Venizelos, and we shall further pray for their hands to wither and for them to become deaf and blind...
...Vickers unashamed spoke Sir Jonah Walker Smith, the right honorable member from their naval shipyard district of Barrow-in-Furness. "The investigators of the United States Senate used gangster methods," said Sir Walker with every out ward sign of indignation. "The activities of Sir Charles Craven [Managing Di rector of Vickers-Armstrong's Works & Shipyards] have for their object the finding of as much employment as possible...
...sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel by a Negress. Non-Fiction...