Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State Isaiah J. Churgin and Ephraim Skliansky went rowing on Long Lake. The rowboat overturned and they were drowned. Both were officers of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, buying machinery for Russia. Funeral services, without religious ceremonies, were held at a funeral chapel in Manhattan. There were 500 wreaths sent-most of them allegedly from grateful U. S. merchants, unnamed. One with an inscription "To my dear friends and co-workers," was said to have been placed there by order of Leon Trotzky. Four busses, two flower cars, ten limousines and other automobiles made up the funeral procession. The corpses...
...Zoroastrians named in the Bible are Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes. The prophet Isaiah speaks of Cyrus as he "anointed" of the Lord. The three "wise men" who came to adore the Child Jesus are supposed to have been Zoroastrians...
...Died. Isaiah Montgomery, 77, Negro leader and onetime slave of Jefferson Davis; at Mound Bayou, Miss., Negro town founded...
...headlines last week was a proposal for an All-American Bible wherein American heroes and heroines would be substituted for Jewish, and wherein the writings of great Americans would become canonized. Thus for Jesus, substitute Lincoln; for Deborah (prophetess and campaigner against social wrongs), substitute Jane Addams; for Isaiah, Tom Paine or Thomas Jefferson; for the Psalms, our native verse. "If we are to have the Bible taught in our American schools, let it be the American Bible!" This proposal became at once the butt of many a merry jest...
Religious books take four of his choices. He excludes the entire Bible on the ground that it is a whole literature, rather than a book, and merely chooses Isaiah and St. Mark as the two most significant books in the collection. The Koran and the "Great Learning" of Confucius, as the most representative books of two great civilizations, he throws in with the remark that "they were the creative and cohesive powers in the world second only to the Bible". Plato's "Republic" gets a place because Wells found it easy to read on the Downs of Sussex, and because...