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...swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused death). Because the Torah reads, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk," kashruth separates meat and milk dishes. Anything cooked with animal fats is "meaty"; anything in butter or milk is "milky." Milky and meaty may not be served at the same meal. The housewife must keep two complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kashruth Endangered | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked like a stick of dynamite in a crowded saloon, shout: "Closing time! The pub is going up!" and light the fuse. When the novelty of this trick wore off he substituted a rocket for the nonexplosive "dynamite." Finlander Kid was 103, with hair "over four yards long"; his sledges were pulled by four brown bears to whom he told all his troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Way Up Yonder | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...story of the production of a musical comedy. Warner Baxter plays the imperious theatrical producer with a fiery zest which again prompts the Playgoer to express the hope that some day, somehow, by accident perhaps, Warner Brothers will give him a real part. Ruby Keeler is the "green kid out of the chorus" who is selected to play the lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever told 1. That...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/8/1933 | See Source »

...minutes at Arnold Constable & Co.'s Fifth Avenue department store, Mrs. Roosevelt bought the dress she will wear at her husband's inaugural-a grey-blue velvet, ankle-length, with long puffed sleeves and a stand-up collar. She will also wear dark blue kid shoes, low-heeled for a long day on the feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fisherman & Wife | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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