Word: herod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HEROD-Jacob S. Minkin-Macmillan...
...Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of age put to death. "As though the list of his numerous crimes were not yet long enough," comments Author Minkin, ". . . his name was taken for what the world considers one of the blackest and most abnormal outrages." Probably Herod died at Jericho, four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with...
Hoffman. Having caught their breath and tired of beating the dead horse of U. S. lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized...
Hearst, About the time that Gossipmonger Walter Winchell, who made his reputation by predicting the birth of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. four months in advance, was proclaiming himself "ashamed" of being a U. S. citizen, the Press at large concluded that Hero Lindbergh's real Herod was Yellow Journalism...
...Matthew, 2:13-14: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thce word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother !>v night, and departed into Egypt...