Word: kol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sundown last week, Kol Nidre, the mournful prayer-hymn in which good Jews ask God to release them from unfulfilled vows, throbbed in countless synagogues. It was the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement dedicated to fasting and turning toward God. At Yom Kippur's sunset, a blast on the shofar (ram's horn) brought to a close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen...
...March from "The Queen of Sheba Gounod *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *"Whispering of the Flowers" Blon *Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens *"Triana" from the Suite "Iberia" Albeniz (Arranged for Orchestra by E. F. Arbos) *"Kol Nidrei" Bruch Violincello solo: Jacobus Langendoen *Cossacks' Dance from the opera "Mazeppa" Tchaikovsky *"Violets," Waltzes Waldteufel *"I've Got you Under My Skin," from "Born to Dance" Porter (Arranged by P. Bodge) Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite "Noure and Anitra" Ilynsky...
...food, drink and all other gratifications of material desires, from one sunset until three stars may be seen in the heavens the following night. God is balancing his books for the year. In the home it is well to examine one's soul; in the synagog to chant "Kol Nidre" petitioning forgiveness for vows made and inadvertently unfulfilled...
...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...
...others go a-viking; he preferred to sit by the fire and figure things out. He figured to such good purpose that he continued to sit safe and prosperous at home while his kinsmen cleft each other to the brisket in various foreign parts. But his sons Skallagrim and Kol were chips of the older block. As long as they followed Thorlief's advice their forays were generally successful. But there came a day when his sons set out against his warning. The near-disastrous storm they ran into was only the start of their troubles. When they were...