Word: shylocking
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...France is no Shylock. She merely demands some concrete expression of good will...
...hate him, for he is a Christian!" said William Shakespeare's Shylock. and claimed his pound of flesh...
...Debt Grapple. Just so long and no longer will a group of European businessmen keep still about "Uncle Shylock.'' The Hoover and Mellon speeches (see below), the daily struggles of Messrs Strawn and Traylor to steer the Congress steering committee, merely postponed the inevitable. Germans grumbled all week behind the scenes about what they now call not War debts but "international obligations.'' The French and Italians got in their able digs. But eventually the British Delegation took over in a fatherly way the job of making U. S. expectations that Europe will pay part of what she owes, seem...
Playwright Shakespeare gave Ludwig Lewisohn the idea. But not even Shakespeare could make much of a play out of Revamper Lewisohn's Shylock. For Lewisohn has romanticized Shylock's melodramatic figure, gentled him down into an unconvincing shadow of his former self. You learn that Antonio's pound of flesh was safe all the time. Shylock's "knife would not have gone very deep into the bosom of his adversary.'' He would only have nicked him, got him good & scared, then shown the Christian dog he knew as much as Portia about the quality of mercy...
When the Doge's court turned the tables on Shylock he was heavily fined, forced to will the rest of his fortune to his run away daughter Jessica and her goy hus band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There...