Word: yonkel
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...Jonathan Livingston Fliegle*. (Kosher for Christmas) This Jewish bird is so pecked that his landings are ruined by the galoshes his mother makes him wear. She even serves chicken soup. Yonkel, the bird, decides Israel is heaven and sets out to fly there. Of the 90 lines in this bagel-without-the-cream-cheese-book, only the last two are any good, and that's a poor percentage...
...Yonkel is flying home...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...
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