Word: schwanz
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Your editor must have been meshuga to have let that word schwanz slip by. Don't you goyim know that this is a schmutzike word, not used by fineh men-schen in a national magazine? You don't have to be Jewish to use the words, but you sure have to be Jewish to know what they mean in order to use them correctly and not get fahrblundjet. Don't be a nahr. Ask me next time you get the urge to zich austzeigen your knowledge of yiddishe chochmes...
...hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky...
...Fork-Tailed Devil. The Electra 10 turned Lockheed into a better-thangoing concern, and World War II converted it into a giant. Its P-38 Lightning, the only U.S. fighter in continuous service throughout World War II, was dubbed by Luftwaffe pilots "der gabel-schwanz Teufel"-"the fork-tailed devil." Making Hudsons for the British before the U.S. entered World War II, Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm...
...rarely been performed (a literarily distinguished cast headed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir once gave it a formal reading under Albert Camus' direction in Paris). Its title, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue, comes out Wie man Wünsche beim Schwanz packt in German, which more or less means "How to Catch a Wish by the Tail." Described as a surrealistic carnival revue, Artist Picasso's play catches little else. Performed by twelve young actors, it is a disheveled stream of Freudian consciousness, generally pouring from a poet called Plumpfoot whom...
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