Word: abou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City, of the American Federation of Arts, of the Survey Associates, of the National Housing Association, of the Charity...
...Home State went, so went the country, in the good old days when men shouldered torchlights and platforms were beer barrels. And among the indicative Home States the name of Ohio was for the political boss like to that of Abou Ben Adhem. Till Sunday...
...time for an intellectual liquidation of the assets and liabilities of the Reading Period is still remote. If, however, its assets are arranged in the chronological order of their appearance, the benefit to the professors, tutors, instructors, and assistants of the University will, like the name of Abou Ben Adhem, lead all the rest. For it is already clear that the respite from lectures, conferences, and section meetings has given the faculty an invaluable opportunity to do its own research work...
...Abou Ben Swenson (may his wife live in peace) awoke that night from a deep dream of peace really the cider was fine. Abou had a growth of black whiskers that was ambush for a whole herd of desert nomads...
...West who still are old-fashioned and superstitious enough to follow anything that smacks of religion are on the wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay...