Word: jezebels
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...introduced at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, the Second Junior Assembly and the International Ball. Fed to the décolletage with the standard dress for such affairs, Maverick Marguerite set Manhattan lorgnettes snapping when she appeared at the Imperial Ball, not in debutante white but in Jezebel...
...Testament authors are hard on Ahab. They accuse him of worshiping false gods and object to his marrying Jezebel, a Phoenician woman who was cursed by the prophet Elijah. Eventually, a later conqueror fulfilled Elijah's curse by having her thrown from a window, trampled to death by horses, and eaten by dogs. "And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands...
...decided that Ahab built the walls of Megiddo, Archaeologist Yadin has also begun the King's rehabilitation. Reading between the lines of the Bible, he says, one can conclude that Ahab was the most effective King of Israel after Solomon. Ahab defeated the invading Assyrians. His marriage to Jezebel was a shrewd diplomatic move, since she was a princess of the powerful neighboring kingdom of Phoenicia. The record is not clear, but apparently Ahab's mistake, in regard to his later reputation, was to oppose a religious faction that instigated a rebellion against his son Joram and then...
...years that they have had their own nation, the Jews have been governed by only two women-Jezebel's daughter Athalia, who ruled Judea from 842 B.C. to 836 B.C., and Queen Salome Alexandra, who succeeded to the throne after the death of her husband in 76 B.C. Last week in Israel a third woman took over, but for the first two days not even members of the Cabinet knew it. Finally, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, 61, rose in the Cabinet to inform her colleagues that Premier David Ben-Gurion, 72, had set sail for a much-needed vacation...
...admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart in Jezebel...