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Word: jonahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaky Ark | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Bible Tales (Golden Gate Quartet; Victor album; $2). For fans of Noah, Jonah, other nightclub spirituals (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...rhythmically deploys, slapping and tapping the while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goldert Gate in Washington | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Actually, Lord Haw-Haw is no better informed than any one of several other English speakers on the German radio. The difference is that he has been ridiculed to fame. The Daily Express's Jonah Barrington dubbed him Haw-Haw last September. BBC comics lost no time ribbing him in rhyme. He became a character in a revue, was impersonated at Mayfair affairs. Trying to figure out his real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ex-Husband Found? | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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