Word: methuselah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such intelligent workers...
...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
Announcing that their new edition would list the Dionne Quintuplets, the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica breathlessly declared: "You may look in vain in the great 24 volumes for your Shirley Temples, but the even tenderer years of the five phenomenal children have achieved a memorial that took all of Methuselah's 900 years and all of Solomon's 500 wives to get for those two ancient worthies. Never before in the 168 years of Britannica history has a living child been given space in its pages...
...have Bibles, presented by fond grandmothers, but they do not read them. Most of them have heard of Noah, or, at least, of his ark, and some are vaguely aware of the fact that Moses was 'holy,' but with these two their knowledge ceases." Typical Rolfe "songs": "Methuselah" Methuselah's biography is characterized by brevity. He holds the all-time record for extraordinary longevity. "Elijah the Tishbite" Elijah, the Tishbite, Couldn't make the fish bite; 'Lowed he was using the wrong kind of bait. First tried a dry fly, then tried...
...Girl in Her Search for God (published separately in 1933). Shaworshipers who have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under the inspired name of Immenso Champernoon...