Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attributed to Saint Augustine since the fifth century. In this sermon St. Augustine represents nine Hebrew prophets and three Gentiles Nebuchadnezzar, Virgil and a Sibyl as reasoning with the Jews in an effort to persuade them that Jesus was the Messiah. In the play Isaiah, Daniel, the Sibyl and Aaron in turn speak their prophecies and then intone a chant...
...AARON BURR-Samuel H. Wandell & Meade Minnigerode-Putnam's, 2 vols. ($10). To show that a man is not always so black as he is painted, here are told the intimate details of the life of the third Vice President...
...reference to the trial of Colonel William Mitchell about to begin. There was much in what they said. The court martial of Benedict Arnold in 1779-80, which resulted in a mild reprimand from General Washington, was not so sensational as the treason which followed it. The trial of Aaron Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel to the Mitchell trial is probably the Court of Inquiry in 1901 into the conduct of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley...
...Jackson?An Informal Biography. In it the story of the wife of Andrew Jackson was told in a chatty manner, a manner similar to that in which Mr. Minnigerode had previously retailed in the Post the faults and foibles and personal characteristics of other characters in U. S. history? Aaron Burr and others...
...From Aaron "who began his career well, as brother of Moses, but made the fatal mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath...