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Chaynik or Tchynik (Rosten) is according to Rosten from the Polish for teapot or teakettle, but the origin of that term is like the English china (ceramic). "mir kayn" is pure German "mir kine" so, according to my mother who learned Yiddish in her grandmothers kitchen, the literal translation is "Don't beat on me like a teakettle."
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LAMB: You say he has four daughters and they went by the name Rosten?
Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics 1999
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You can read the great comic writers—Jane Austen, Dickens, Twain, Thurber, Leo Rosten, Kingsley Amis—and notice what a refined art comedy is, how it takes the most subtle and sophisticated writing to make you laugh.
Ping-Pong and the Game of Comedy Howard Jacobson 2011
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Leo Rosten claims that the word "yarmulke" comes from the Tatar word for skullcap.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Kippah Your Head Covering Outta My Office Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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Linda whispered her own last name aloud when she read, “Rosten.”
NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010
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Reminds me of another one, W.C. Fields '"Any man who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad" ... which I think was actually said * about* Fields by Leo Rosten.
Brahms the Progressive Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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As an example of chutzpah, Rosten cites "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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As an example of chutzpah, Rosten cites "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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As an example of chutzpah, Rosten cites "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah 2008
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Anthropologist Leo Rosten described the vulnerability of most Hollywood writers:
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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