Word: obadiah
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...pastor came back loaded with color slides and notes, from which he has been making carefully constructed, well illustrated lecture-sermons. Topics, announced as much as four months in advance, include such eye-catchers as "Where Did Cain Get His Wife?"* and "The Lost. City of Edom and Obadiah's Strange Message...
Marvin and Obadiah Leonard were a couple of Texas farm boys when they came to Fort Worth in 1918, bought a general store and settled down. They knew how to make customers feel at home. Said Marvin: "If you see a man who wants to spit, walk in front of him and spit, so he'll see that it's the thing to do." Said Obadiah: "The customer pays our bills. We're going to be good...
Many a concert classic has been swung higher than Obadiah, but last week a Tchaikovsky theme was swung five different ways at once. The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, played straight, had its popular start in the movies last spring; Mary Astor's make-believe pounding of it in The Great Lie got it widely known as "the Mary Astor Concerto." Freddie Martin recorded it, but neglected to give it lyrics which could be copyrighted. So by last week there were four competing versions...
...Genesis was written about 350 B. C. and comes 17th in the Smith-Goodspeed arrangement. Last are the Letters to Timothy and Titus, written by some Greek follower of St. Paul. Whole books omitted in The Short Bible are Chronicles. Song of Solomon (because non-religious). Lamentations, Obadiah, Malachi. II Peter. II and III John, Jude. Other books are severely edited. Professor Goodspeed found Isaiah hardest to blue-pencil because of its dignity and swift, smooth literary flow. Every book in The Short Bible is prefaced with brief, graphic notes by Professor Goodspeed...
...great Verdi listened. The Khedive whistled Obadiah. Soon the Egyptian National Anthem was composed...