Word: rajahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becoming a homogenized American. By parading their unregenerate Yiddish accents and their careful malapropisms, the studio bosses were implying that their success came from street smarts acquired on the Lower East Side and further back, in the shtetls of Eastern Europe; it took a ragman to become a Hollywood rajah. "They had grown up," wrote Film Historian Carlos Clarens, "in a trade where samples could be smelled, fingered and felt; they recognized craft when they saw it, and they respected it; rather than hoodwink the customer, they aimed to please." The moguls did not see themselves as artists...
...Rajah and his companion came to Boston to remedy problems of the bird's difficulty in having any offspring. "Rajah is a killer Mynah," said Kerr. "He simply killed all of his mates...
...pollen mixed with caviar has been the only aphrodisiac successful in curing Rajah's coupling problems. Kerr explained. Currently, be pollen is in high demand in Toronto, so Kerr came to Boston to fill a $100,000 order with Frederick C. Kulow '47. President of Bee Pollen from England...
Kerr purchased Rajah's latest lady friend, Rani, who is 137 years his junior, from an elderly woman in Toronto. So far, the bee pollen seems to be working. Kerr said, adding that "The birds hang on the partition. When we take it away they make love in the air. When they fall back into their cages, they are exhausted...
Kerr added that he expected Rajah's soon to be conceived off spring to inherit its father's same charm. Hill said that since the bee pollen has been so successful, the group will visit the National Zoo in Washington. D.C. next week and offer the brown tablets to the frigid pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing