Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale 1918. Other members of the class: Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Ohio State Senator John Martin Vorys (son of William Howard Taft's political sponsor, Arthur Isaiah Vorys), Playwright Philip J. Q. Barry (You and I, In a Garden, etc.), Book Critic John Chipman Farrar, Novelist Wilmarth S. Lewis (See MILESTONES, p. 24), Chevalier Artemus L. Gates of the Legion of Honor, Newell Garfield (presidential grandson), Arthur Yales (gargantuan golfer...
...alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than twelve dozen jars of jelly. She, Metabel felt...
...ISAIAH...
...greatly have times changed! So far has the mind of America turned around the corner from the liberalism of the first decade of this century to the conservatism of today! Roosevelt will live in our history, not as a great President, but as a great agitator like Isaiah and Elijah. He stood in the courts of democracy and thundered the truth about its corruption of King Demos into its teeth...
...only to his tribe but (previously) to the missionary who converted him, Jens Olsen. Danish Jens Olsen naturally considered that after Kudlooktoo's public confession no secrecy attached to what he had confessed in private. Soon famed Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...