Word: emmanuele
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...that were scribbled in Yiddish and Hebrew. They were sealed (in a milk can) and buried at a secret point in the ghetto. Not until 1946 did searchers find them in bombed Warsaw's featureless rubble. The man who originally compiled, wrote and preserved the records was named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland, but he went back home to Warsaw to share the fate...
NOTES FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO: THE JOURNAL OF EMMANUEL RINGELBLUM (369 pp.)-Edited and Translated by Jacob Sloan-McGraw-Hill...
...Emmanuel Slabaugh and Eli Hershberger (John's distant cousin) backed up his refusal. Their bonneted wives, standing quietly by, said nothing. Said Judge Young: "I can't indulge in a religious argument. Religious convictions do not stand against an order of this court. We must render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. And today we're dealing with Caesar." He ordered that the parents be locked up until the three teen-agers are turned over to the children's home...
Smoke in the Cellar. "Compared to the open, cordial, jovial Americans," he wrote of the momentous changeover in his early life, "the British were standoffish and haughty. I never learned to like them." He did learn to imitate their cool, diplomatic ways. As the years rolled by and Victor Emmanuel's monarchy gave way to Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, the village boy became a perfect embodiment of that superdiplomat-the diplomatic gentleman's gentleman. As a tactful and understanding embassy servant he was entrusted with all sorts of delicate missions by the well-born young Britons...
John Harvard moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, two years after his graduation from Emmanuel College Cambridge. He died of tuberculosis on September 14, 1638, leaving half his property and all his books to the new college on the Charles River in Cambridge...