Word: josiah
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...most completely conglomerate mess of involved language which was ever perpetrated upon a free people," rumbled Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in the Senate last week. "Is it conceivable . . . that there could be any emergency on earth that would justify it?" rasped North Carolina's Josiah Bailey. "Perhaps it will not work," admitted Nebraska's old George Norris, "but what will work...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...
...Whenever the Republican Party, the Democratic Party or the New Deal Party or any other party," rumbled North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, "caters to the Negro vote, it is going to elect to office common fellows of the baser sort." But when Kenneth McKellar began scornfully quoting from the bill in an effort to establish its unconstitutionality, Senator Wagner pointed out that the passage in question was a quotation from the Fourteenth Amendment. "Yes," stammered Senator McKellar...
Dropping Things-Josiah Bailey rose in Baptist wrath to read from Ferdinand Lundberg's America's 60 Families, the New Deal's current antimonopoly handbook, a passage in which Author Lundberg maintained that those who bathe frequently experience a subconscious feeling of guilt...
Divorced. Dmitri Pavolvitch Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, co-assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; from Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Ilyinski, formerly Audrey Emery, inheritor of $6,000,000 from the leather fortune of Cincinnati's John Josiah Emery; in Bayonne, France...