Word: outs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claire Adams depicts the Jobian trials of a young newspaperman who is persuaded by his bride to leave spacious Waco, Tex., for a one-room flat in Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need...
Twittering, chirping, trumpeting, yipping, squawking, grunting, bristling, gibbering, jittering, wagging, scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian...
"When there were some visitors on the set he would say, 'Now Miss MacDonald, try to act for a change. Ach, but you are a dumb girl!' When I asked why he had engaged me for the role if I were so dumb he would say, 'Ach, I was dumb...
The reports of miraculous cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was...
To Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had...