Word: cubits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to that well established authority, the Bible, it is impossible for a man to add a cubit to his stature by taking thought, but it does not say anything about detracting a cubit or even more from a woman's girth by the same process. In this respect Mitzi, star of "The Madcap" now playing at the Shubert Theatre goes the Good Book one better, for she gives a formula for taking off weight which consists mostly of taking thought...
...every one knows, a cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. But there are five historical calculations for the cubit, the shortest being the Roman of 17.4 in., by which Jesus would have been 4 ft. 4.2 inches tall; the longest the Egyptian of 20.61 in., by which He would have been 5 ft. 1.83 in. tall* Dr. Harris doubtless has unpublished data on the subject...
...English cubit was 18 in.; the Greek 18.25 in.; the Hebrew...
History that cannot add a cubit to a cowboy...
...informed) The problem is "Why?" His new picture is a typical Will Hart Western. Possibly his historical details are increasingly accurate. What of it? He was always inimitable-the greatest cowboy that ever faced a camera. Even William S. Hart by taking two years' thought cannot add one cubit to his stature...