Word: mene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern world is putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...
According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...