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...would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily assures Delilah: "I won't need it. He's a young lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Zorah White Gristede, slim, attractive wife of an executive of the swank Gristede grocery chain, wrote the Commissioner a letter: "Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Pyrrhic Humor | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Artists invited to compete were: Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Albert Sterner, Tony Sarg, Arthur B. Davies, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri, William and Margaret Zorah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dove and Donkey | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...Zorah, the Sorceress, Julian Codman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Play. | 4/4/1892 | See Source »

...Scene. - The home of Zorah in the Pyramid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Play. | 4/4/1892 | See Source »

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