Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bothered about economic doctrines. My program consists of one single point: the creation of work. . . . Germans of all classes are dominated by only one thought: 'Give us work'. ... In order to fight unemployment I shall not reject promising measures even though they may be not strictly in line with orthodox economic reasoning...
There are pages of late Pennsylvania news, orthodox feature stories of national affairs. The bulk of the 400,000 circulation is attracted by the "departments"-Women's Realm; Household Helps; Odd. Strange & Curious; Live Topics for Women & Children; Clever Little Stories; The Story Section. Also there are comics. Will Rogers, and a Sermon for the People written weekly for the past 26 years by Rev. Stephen Paulson of Williamsport...
With their garments slit, their locks tousled, an orthodox Jewish family mourns its dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth...
...launched the famed cellophane campaign with the $50,000-in-prizes letter contest. Recently Camel advertising has been confined chiefly to magazines. Advertising men expect that the new Estyfied copy will appear early in January, first in newspapers. Agent Esty was performing the first part of the campaign in orthodox fashion last week, letting nobody know the nature of the bait that lured the Camels...
...shortcomings were more than atoned for by his obvious sincerity of purpose. Be fore he had finished he had everyone singing with him, even the traffic cops. Professor John R. Jones, long-haired music-master who usually supervises Mrs. Vanderlip's Infirmary sings, stood in the background, beating orthodox time. But the audience ignored him when Singer Smith grinned a wide grin, waved his own tempo...