Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Have you no reservation, sir?" It is a stock question in certain "Goyim" (Christian) hotels which discriminate against Jews. The dapper clerk, a trained ethnologist, addresses it to any prospective guest whose name, dress, manners or lineaments might indicate that he is a Jew. U. S. Jews, many of them wealthy, finely educated, have heard this question, turned away from the desk, and had the bellboy carry their bags back to the taxicab...
...enough to change the district, that other hotels for Jews will spring up beside it and bring with them restaurants, theatres, stores, turning back the city's surge to the north. Its stock, some $2,200,000 worth, is held by 25,000 Jews. It derives the name "Libby's" from "Die Liebe," a term of affection which its manager, Max Bernstein, applied to his mother...
...That hypothesis cannot be supported by a single hair. Burnsides got the name from the gallant General Ambrose E. Burnside, a Civil War hero, who wore that kind of whiskers...
...Name two U. S. citizens who took pleasure in possessing similar jaws, brows, cheek grooves, hooded eyes, narrow crania, lean temples, longish ears...
...Name a Semite British Fascist lately at large...