Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Killgrew appealed to the higher emotions (not to say intellect) of his colleagues, remarking in scholarly fashion: "Why, even go back to Adam and Eve, and you find they even were a fig leaf," Fortunately no fellow-legislator cared to delve into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden...
...March 11 issue of TIME under Miscellany, I noticed an article about Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger of Columbus, Ohio, claiming descent from Adam...
...Adam to Sapp...
Hepburn because he was a thoroughgoing Liberal and a close friend and adviser of the late Sir Adam Beck, "father of Hydro." As early as 1888 Mr. Lyon was editing a paper called the Labour Reformer. For 40 years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger, historian of the Columbus Genealogical Society, trailing the Sells family back through the ages in genealogical libraries in Chicago, Washington and New York, solemnly announced that she had tracked it down to Adam. Her course (going backward): Rhode Island's Roger Williams, Britain's Plantagenets, 21 generations of Scottish kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings, Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus; Judah's Zedekiah, Israel's David, Enos, Seth and thus (4,000 B.C.) Adam...