Word: josephus
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...paralysis; heard a man they did not admire take the oath of office of President of the U. S. Through their minds must have flashed memories of the glorious days of 1913, when the party of freckle-faced Jefferso and hard-cider Jackson came back to power. Happy days. . . . Josephus Daniels laughing in the first meeting of the Cabinet "Isn't it great! Isn't it wonderful...
Colleagues. "Josephus Daniels [first Cabinet meeting] appeared to be hugely enjoying the experience. He was having sensations at the rate of a dozen a minute. He came toward me, exclaiming: 'Isn't it great? Isn't it wonderful...
...will be a good thing for the candidate. If it is a bad thing for the party, it will be a bad thing for the party's Presidential nominee." In Raleigh, N. C., a semi-bald, placid, likeable newspaper editor amuses himself and satisfies his readers. He is Josephus Daniels, Democrat, War-time Secretary of the Navy. Last week he became orator once again. Exasperated with hearing farm bloc blurb, he told the Annual Farmers' Convention at North Carolina State College to "awake out of their sleep and go into politics redheaded. . . . There never was a time when...
Last week another, Dr. Robert Eisler, working in his musty study in the Palais Royal at Paris, was collating an Old Russian (Slavonic) text of Josephus† with fragments that referred in Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Arabian to the times of Jesus. By collation he has worked out this visualization...
...Whom did Josephus describe as "of middle size with a stooping back...