Word: kosher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voyage on Bread. Morris Cohen began his journey in the strict Orthodox Jewish schools of Russia. He continued it in the public schools of New York City, after traveling steerage to the U.S., living during the whole trip on bread because the ship's food was not kosher. Later, he worked in a poolroom to get enough money to go through City College, finally was sent to Harvard on a scholarship. In 1902, he joined the City College faculty...
...feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous . . . He's just a highminded Holy Roller in a semi-religious frenzy...
...groups: enforcement of the Sabbath, adoption of biblical law as the basis for Israel's legal system, and government observance of dietary laws. Said he: "I don't expect to go looking into the cook pots of all the housewives of Israel, but state institutions should have kosher kitchens." He felt that the new state should "have the stamp of Judaism upon...
...Detroit's cosmopolitan Petoskey section, hoodlums last week systematically scarred the windows of 41 kosher butcher shops with acid. Apparently well-organized, the vandals carried specially insulated buckets, drove cars with license plates covered. Police had no clue as to their identity...
...routines, that morale means just One Thing to all men. The hero really loves the nice girl (Joan Leslie) who loves him, but he doesn't know it yet. He gets hold of a magic lamp in a scrap-salvage drive. The lamp breaks, and releases a gaily kosher genie (Gene Sheldon). The grateful genie gives him three wishes -which rather confusingly turn out to be four or five...