Word: absalom
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...pictures, he reads the Bible. His works are hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites...
...Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, under Dr. Slousch, excavated the so-called tombs of Absalom and Jehoshaphat, dated about the 4th Century B. C., in the ancient cemeteries east of Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish fanatics opposed the work until a wall collapsed exposing the façade of the tomb of Jehoshaphat...
...scene of "The Witch" is laid in Salem in the year 1692. Joan, a young Portuguese woman comes to Salem and marries Absalom Hawthorn, an avowed witch-hater. She soon finds that she really loves, not Absalom, but his grown-up son, Gabriel. Joan knowing that her own mother possessed supernatural power decides to see if she has inherited it, and wills Absalom dead. He dies immediately, falling at her feet. His old mother Goodwife Abigail, suspects witchery and demands that Joan take the "test of touching." In this test she breaks down and admits that she is a witch...
This afternoon at 4.45 o'clock in New Lecture Hall Mr. Copeland will read "The Story of Absalom, the Story of the Shunammite, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and other selections from the King James Bible." The reading will be open to the public, and will be held in the New Lecture Hall and not in Sever 11, as previously announced...
...READING. "The Story of Absalom, the Story of the Shunammite the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and other selections from the King James Bible." Mr. Copeland. New Lecture Hall...