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...story of the Deluge was probably an hysterical account of a local flood at Babylon. The world and the waters and the sky were not created in seven days. The picture of Moses on Mt. Sinai was probably the hallucination of one scared by a thunderclap...
...region in which Nuzi lies is on the borders of Babylon and Assyria, and was in antiquity occupied by a people known as the Guti, the ruins of whose cities are now represented by numerous mounds The Guti seem not to have been Semites, but probably of Hittite origin. Most of the proper names in the inscriptions from Nuzi are non-Semitic. Many of these, such as Durar-Teshub, Shar-Teshub, have as their second element the name of the chief Hittite god, Teshub. The language of the inscriptions is Assyrian, with considerable intermixture of non-Assyrian words...
...pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest but it's no use, no one's killed, and that...
...Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where he is with the crowd he had to do what...
...Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms...