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...over the doors-strange faces at the windows-everything was strange...the very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it...A fellow...was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens-elections-members of Congress -liberty...and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Returned: A New Rip Van Winkle | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Billy is spiritual, scriptural and sane. It is the bankrupt liberals, the wild-eyed apostates, the deceitful modernists whose message, interpretation and teachings are demagogic, irrelevant and Babylonish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 2, 1956 | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...give Gene credit, he does surround himself with a some-what more entertaining group than usual to celebrate his "Hall and Farewell" performances. Now that he is leaving Boston, for a while at least, the reviewers will have to give more attention to the feature film at the Babylonish picture palace...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...these latter periods of darkness, when the Church, institutionally speaking at least, lay prostrate under the heel of a French king, that Professor Merriman will discuss when he speaks at 11 o'clock in Emerson D this morning on the Babylonish Captivity of the Papacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

...Babylonish Captivity of the Papacy," Professor Merriman, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

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