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Word: memorialist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Cabinet posts, Davis' confidant. Called "the Mephistopheles of the Rebellion," connected with many a shady deal in speculation and filibustering, Benjamin boasted that no letter of his would be found when he died. Only a few were. Yet he was thought charming by Mrs. Chestnut, "that tart memorialist of Southern statesmen," who declared that "the Confederacy has been done to death by the politicians." After a harrowing flight from Richmond, he became a leader at the London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Cabinet | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...only one yet found which could have been in existence in Christ's time, remained untranslated until Smithsonian's Dr. Lamsa deciphered it last week. He read: As a good memorial for Zebedee, son of John, who made this pillar as a memorial for himself. Amen. Presumably Memorialist Zebedee was the same father left by Disciple John and Brother James in the fishing boat with the hired servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Jesus Spoke | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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