Word: haman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when it should be done. But Esther heard of the plot and on the 14th...
...Ford dealers on the basis of good habits, home town standing and enthusiasm for the car itself. Ford dealers could sell only Ford cars. "Influences" that made Ford stock worth relatively little in 1913: Woodrow Wilson's threat to hang commercial malefactors "on a gallows as high as Haman"; New York's impeached Governor William Sulzer's threats against stock speculations; Theodore Roosevelt's trumpetings at "malefactors of great wealth."-Testimony of Arthur O. Choate, Manhattan investment banker...
...highly entertained the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with his exposition of the first unalterable constitution of the League of Nations. Later he stated that those men, chosen by the American people to represent them, had pygmy minds and that they should be hanged head down higher than was. Haman hanged...
...Black Crook." Mine was of an olive color, and faded early to a sickly green. But what glorious times have we had together! I mentally poke it in the ribs, and we laugh over that first suspension in Freshman year. Sell old hats! Get thee gone, son of Haman, or I may do thee an injury...