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Word: caine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Cain sacrificed to the Lord "the fruit of the ground," Abel "the firstlings of his flock." "And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jehovah, Jupiter, Baal | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Editor Ernest V. Sterry of the Christian Enquirer went to jail at Toronto last week, as he expected he would do when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blasphemy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Able Cain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...This measure for the deportation of incorrigible political and social riff-raff, including loan sharks, cocain sellers, white slave traffickers and perverters of children, among them some women, will be a social purge ridding the country of many pernicious influences. In Naples alone over 60 usurers and 40 co cain sellers repeatedly guilty of the lowest offenses are on the deportation list. With these I have no pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deportations | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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