Word: joab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jobs, raged at this requirement. They caused the New York Daily News to print their pictures with stories damning Earl Carroll, quoting George White, "Ziggy" and such showmen as being shocked by Earl Carroll's nude parade. The effort to start another Earl Carroll rumpus failed; District Attorney Joab H. Banton pointed out that even if the chorines were telling the truth, Earl Carroll had committed no crime...
After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...
...that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...
...reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage of the Greeks we might as well give...
...Translation. Next spring, at the season when the first messengers of David had started, David despatched Joab and his troops (the whole army of Israel), who devastated Ammpn and besieged Rabbah. David, however, remained at Jerusalem...