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...only reference to Jews which will appear in Thomas Y. Crowell Co.'s* new edition of Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases† when it appears next month will be: "Jew. In the original edition Roget included the word Jew in several groups of synonyms. In this printing all uncomplimentary racial allusions have been omitted...
Last week the American Hebrew received many a Jew's congratulations for accomplishing this deletion. Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist, Shylock, chicanery, duplicity, crafty.* Mr. Blumenthal, 47, sent his article to Thomas Irving Crowell, 65, Protestant. The 'B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other...
...Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), French-descended English physiologist and physician, onetime secretary of the Royal Society, after 50 years compilation published his famed and useful Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852, "so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been...
Montevideo to Manhattan. From Montevideo, Uruguay, a Colonel Cesario Berisso, Major Roget Otero and Mechanic Dagoberto Moll took off last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...
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