Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most striking aspect of the United States as I have found it, is the architecture," he went on, in answer to the reporter's query. "I tis really awe-inspiring. I can readily perceive a re- lationship between ancient. Nineveh and the towering cities here. At any moment I fancy that I may see some city dwellers from ancient Babylon appear in the tall buildings...
...spoke to him. "Arise, Jonah," cried He, "and go to Nineveh. Cry out against that great city for its sins." Jonah answered fiercely: "You . . . What are you God of ? Were you God of Israel when a Tyrian stole my love? Was I your prophet then?" In anger, he took ship for Tarshish, thinking by this to make God lose...
...well known how the sailors, after a long struggle, regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah prophesied : "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." The city repented like a child of its sins; even the King went and sat down in some ashes. When the forty days were spent, it was found that God had spared Nineveh...
...gurgitated prophet going to Nineveh...
...merchant family, actually an able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years. The last quality is what calls for superlatives. Every character in the book...