Word: japhet
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...greatest bank robbery ever," fumed Mordechai Virshubski, a member of Israel's Knesset. He and many of his countrymen were outraged at the news that Ernest Japhet, the former chairman of Bank Leumi (1985 assets: $22 billion), had negotiated for himself $5 million in severance pay and a $360,000 annual pension. Protesters stormed the bank's Tel Aviv headquarters. A prime reason for the anger was that Japhet had been forced to step down last year when a government commission criticized his role in the 1983 crash of the value of Israeli bank stocks. As public indignation mounted last...
...words class him with the framers of humorous analogies. For he observes with glee that Noah in founding the menagerie business was the first man to water the stock; while he was yet more modern in utilizing the dove for sky-sign advertising. And his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, having organized the "Globe Girdling Construction Company", sought the several continents because "such a big proposition could not be handled from the ark alone...
...pyramids finished with smooth stone,--a publicity stunt still good after four thousand years. But nevertheless he was really only an interloper. Are not the "three stories" of Noah's Ark duplicated in three chambers of different levels in the pyramid? The entrance to the highest chamber, that of Japhet, according to Dr. Getsinger, points conveniently at the North Star just as it was indubitably intended to do when first built thirty thousand years ago when the earth was at the same point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic...
Group I (accapella) Adoramus To Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (1526-1594) Crucifixus Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) O Filii et Filiae Volckmar Leisring (-1637) Group II (with orchestra) Two Pictures from the "Tower of Babel" Choruses of Ham and Japhet Rubenstein "Prayer of Thanksgiving" Netherland Folk Song
...friend the scholar in Semitic 12 informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against...