Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mother Goose is not an imaginary personage. She actually lived in Boston in the 17th Century. Born Elizabeth Foster, she married one Isaac Vergoose (or Goose), a Boston widower "with eight or ten children," becoming Mother Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs...
...house so intently watched by the throng came some rabbis, slowly bearing a coffin. The thousands in the street set up a louder cry and surged toward the hearse for a last look at the remains of their holy man, their "Chief Grand Rabbi." Called Isaac Friedman, he had come to them in the spring, from Sadagora, Austria, he saying, they believing, that he was of the seed of David in the legendary Messianic line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried...
These mourners of Isaac Friedman were of the Hasidim, a cult of Judaism that had its origin among the Polish Jews in the 18th Century, as a movement of popular protest against the strict ritualism and insistence upon the immutability of the law as propounded by the Talmudists, or orthodox rabbis, whom the Hasidim call the Mitnaggedim, or "opposition." The belief in the miraculous powers of their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews...
...trustees and the personnel of the citizens' committee. Names : Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury ; Homer D. Williams (steel) ; John H. Nicholson (tubing) ; Robert B. Mellon (banks) ; Edward V. Babcock (lumber) ; George H. Clapp (aluminum) ; Howard Heinz (pickles) ; Marcus Aaron (china) ; Charles D. Armstrong (corks) ; Isaac W. Frank (foundries) ; Arthur L. Humphrey (air brakes) ; A. J. Kelly Jr. (realty) ; Hamilton Stewart (blast furnaces) ; T. H. B. McKnight (railroads...
Died. Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, née Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement...