Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...middle ages when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable sacrifice to their Jehovah...
...Alcohol, by its rapid absorption without the necessity of previous digestion, by its action to increase the amount of blood circulating in the capillaries of the skin, gives a feeling of distinct warmth and comfort to the aged...
...when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
...quarries. The early hour results from two factors. The quarries are quick to heat, and work is hard after the 10 a. m. sun begins to burn. And Quarryman Guido Murray Fabbricotti is not wholly Latin. His indolent Italian temperament is pricked into action by the Scottish blood of his mother. Guide's father, Bernardo Fabbricotti, 64 years ago, married Helen Murray, a Scotch noblewoman of sorts. Son Guido inherited the quarries of his father and the early rising hours of his mother-together with an English public school accent and a love for good horses...