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...fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and many another famed educator or politician...
...actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers began to cheer and slap each other's backs. "Hurray for the statue of Liberty...
...sightseers know that tong means "Parlor." The implication of the word is a genial one, implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
...number 4 in the national ranking. Last March, in Pasedena, she took a set from Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy's opponent in the Wimbleton finals in 1905, 1906, 1907. put out Miss Marion Williams of California...
...sheep of some 10,000 to 15,000 persons in dirty, tumbledown sheds scarcely large enough for half that number) at the Schneidemühl concentration camp had shaken the whole Fatherland, that a cinema, a sewing circle for girls, a sporting club for men were organized to bring cheer to the miserable...