Word: ishmael
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...protest against the expulsion of Ishmael P. Flory from Fisk University in Nashville. Tennesse, the Harvard Chapter of the N. S. L. sent the following telegram last night...
...with their niggardly life in a little Cheltenham shop, so eager to mix with chieftains in the wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South America he encountered plenty of wild characters. Some of them: the Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived...
...Whenever the lone wolf, the unethical competitor, the reckless promoter, the Ishmael or Insull whose hand is against every man's, declines to join an end recognized as being for the public welfare and threatens to drag the industry back to a stage of anarchy, the government may properly be asked to apply restraint...
...When Ishmael, son of Hagar, ancestor of all Mohammedans, was born (Genesis 16:11-16), a pessimistic angel acidly remarked that he would be a wild man, his hand would be against every man, and every man's hand would be against him. For two weeks his descendant Ismael* Husseyin wandered like a wild man over the bleak mountains of Anatolia. Every man's hand was against him. Last week they tracked him down...
...Variation of Ishmael...