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Army Life. In Joppa, Md., in a $100,000 suit against the Government, Arthur K. Jefferson explained that he was operated on while in the Army, never quite recovered even after doctors operated a second time and removed from his abdomen a hand towel marked "U.S. Medical Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...JOPPA DOOR-Hope Williams Sykes -Putnam ($2.50). First-person narrative, in broken but clear English, of a German immigrant woman who settled in Jerusalem, moved on to Utah in the early days of the Mormons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...visited Jaffa (the Joppa of Biblical note), motored to its suburb Tel-Aviv, a purely Jewish town where, it is said, everybody lives by doing some one's else washing. He also went to Richon L'Zion, one of the oldest modern settlements of Jews, to Dilber and other more re- cent Jewish settlements. Everywhere the veteran Earl was received in manifest goodwill. Arabs vowed he must be a Jew to receive such welcomes and to delight in receiving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE (British Mandate): In the Promised Land | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

...nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended for their wit upon salaciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Limericks | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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