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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IRISH PATRIOT POETS ARE LAUDED BY "A.E." | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah-- | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jonah-- | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...gurgitated prophet going to Nineveh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buddenbrooks* | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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