Word: mordecai
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...came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, who reigned 24 centuries ago 'from India to Ethiopia, that he put away his proud wife Vashti and espoused a modest, pretty Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when...
...cast maintain the high standard set by Miss Peterson; and to say this is to pay them no mean compliment. As always at the Plymouth the sets are excellent. Thora Donelle Marjorie Peterson Warren Pascal Brian Donlevy Catharine Pellett Helen Brooks Homer Pellett Louis Jean Heydt Eva Mordecai Ollie Burgoyne Janice McNish June Martel Hans Patt Carl Johan
...present at the great annual economic camp meeting the public for the first time recognized perhaps half a dozen names of notable economists among a list which included (besides Colonel Ayres) Edwin W. Kemmerer, Irving Fisher, George F. Warren, Oliver M. W. Sprague, James Harvey Rogers, Mordecai J. B. Ezekiel, Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...Society les Chevaliers de Hastings (Paris), applicants must prove 900 years of descent from one of William the Conqueror's 315 blooded henchmen. U. S. applicants: American Locomotive Co.'s President William Carter Dickerman, Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.'s President Philip Dakin Wagoner, retired Pennsylvania Banker Mordecai Jackson Crispin...
...last week sent to Congress an emergency farm relief bill of staggering scope and potentiality. In an effort to beat the sun's march north it had been hastily whipped together by young, diffident Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, by alert, dapper Assistant Secretary Tugwell, by wise, bespectacled Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, new economic adviser to the Secretary and by Frederick Lee, onetime lobbyist for the major farm organizations. At the Capitol, Representative Jones of Texas whisked it into his Committee on Agriculture, summoned his colleagues, slammed the door and settled down to mull over its complexities...