Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Brooklyn met the Marriage Brokers' Association of the U.S. To its members the Association's secretary, Rabbi Nathan Wolf, reported that business is indeed shlecht, with kalles (would-be brides) outnumbering chassanim (would-be grooms) ten to one. Next day Rabbi Wolf received newshawks in the midtown Manhattan Synagog where, at an annual cost of $500 to New York City, he is the only registered voter. Wearing a black skullcap, he tabulated chassanim according to their worth as husbands. Most in demand are doctors, who may command a dowry of $12,000. Rabbis get from...
...shadchen himself, Rabbi Wolf explained why a marriage broker is useful: ''When you meet a girl on the street or in the subway, all you see is the veneer, the varnish. Now the marriage broker investigates. He looks up the money part of the woman and investigates the man's past, his relations and his standing. The proper way to size up a person is to see if he has business with a bank. If he doesn't deal with a bank, he's no good...
...qualifications for a good match Rabbi Wolf, who annually lectures shadchonim on the ethics of their business, declared beauty comes first. "When you go into a grocery store you demand the best, you demand that it be hot and with cream. Well, when you take a girl your sister asks, 'What have you brought home, a nice young lady...
First ten women players chosen were Helen Jacobs, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Carolin Babcock, Dorothy Andrus. Baroness Maud Levi. Jane Sharp. Marjorie Morrill Painter, Mary Greef Harris, Marjorie Sachs, Catherine Wolf...
Other appointments announced yesterday by the Corporation are those of Friedrich E. Machlup-Wolf, who will be Lecturer on Economics for the second half of the year; Edward Welbourne, Lecturer on Government and tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics for the second half of the year; Leonard Carmichael, Lecturer on Psychology for the first half of 1935-36; and Harrison S. Dimmitt, assistant secretary of the Law School for one year, from January...