Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard...
...Died. Israel Zangwill, 62, English Jew famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world...
...spake, 'We are powerless and too weak to withstand the Romans ... we will go tell Pilate what we have heard, and be without distress, lest if he hear it from others we be robbed of our substance and ourselves be put to the sword and the children of Israel dispersed.' And they went and told it to Pilate and he sent and had many people cut down...
...Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai . . . saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls...
...social irony, and instead of berating the Gentiles, he has simply noted their frame of mind and thrown his weight behind a movement to supply the people of his race and creed with an institution which, without in turn discriminating against other creeds, will put the children of Israel on an equal educational footing with their Gentile countrymen...