Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Rabbi Schulman refuses to name this 'stinking, tingling book' which is 'making enough money for its author and publisher as it is.' But it was recognized instantly by the congregation, which crowded around the rabbi after the sermon and joined in attacking it as Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* [reviewed in TIME, Jan. 14]. Mention in the book of East Side gangs, politicians and houses of prostitution caused Rabbi Schulman to say that 'the book drips in lecherousness and is steeped in sensuality.' To a newspaper reporter I pointed out that the author...
...scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical moments...
...HAUNCH, PAUNCH AHD JOWL-An Anonymous Autobiography-Boni...
...other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...