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...guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged and out-snuffed at every turn. The young "Yid scribbler" makes off with his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beastly Business | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik, wop, yid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Code | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...Allied Military Government, and by an ex-SS man looking for a girl. The children are joined by Goy, who is 14 and strong, and by Eve, who is 15 and has a friend with her, a girl named Ate. When the SS man comes back drunk, Goy and Yid nearly kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Chaplain Smith works a miracle in the cellar. Before his zeal on behalf of the children finally gets him arrested, he even has Yid using phrases like "the Lord permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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