Word: jonahed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Captain John Smith was considered to possess the unfortunate qualifications of Jonah to the extent of causing a storm at sea, he suffered the same punishment of being cast forth from the ship; but on account either of his greater endurance or of the extra-ordinary lack of great-dish at the time, tradition has it that he out-Jonahed Jonah...
...Down, Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...
...John Taylor, blind preacher of the Congregational church at Brule urged his flock to keep faith in the Biblical story about Jonah and the Whale. Said he: "Jonah found his salvation down there in the submarine [belly of the whale] ... so many men doubt the prophecy of Jonah because they don't trust God." The presidential family listened attentively...
...hits where before they had dribbled feebly to the infield. There were two men on base, none out, and trembling hesitancy in the Holy Cross stands in the ninth when A. G. Whitney '29 lashing a screaming line drive to deep left center. Captain Savage, who was Harvard's Jonah for the day, appeared from nowhere and speared the ball backhanded with his gloved hand. Cutts followed with a double, but the next two batters died. R. C. Sullivan '28 on a pop fly, and J. P. Chase '28 on a called third strike...
...instance, is done on Jonah and his Whale. Not only are these two principals shown in intimate discourse, but Mrs. Whale lends a feminine and domestic touch to the scene with a little marital argument in which the unfortunate Jonah is discussed as a Jonah to the cetaccan digestion, much like Mr. Kipling's mariner who made it uncomfortable for the whale's throat...