Word: ishmael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nature a timid soul, and never ceased to be afraid of his own deviations from the normal." Yet Butler did not fly from the safety of the conventional world into the equally safe and, in its own way, equally conventional bosom of the latest "progressive" movement. He called himself Ishmael, and prepared to take on all comers...
...Arabs, too, Beersheba had deep historical and religious significance. It was here that Abraham drove out into the wilderness his Egyptian servant Hagar, and Ishmael, the son she had borne him. Ishmael, according to Mohammedan tradition, became the father of the Arab race...