Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning the titular patriarchs of the pagan-named* weekdays, there was but one ambiguity: Nathan or Oscar Solomon? It was neither, it was Simon William (S. W. Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that...
...prove his point he quoted from the Bible "a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," and went on to show that evolution was a reversion to pagan pantheism...
...Straton attacked the scientists who believe and teach the theory of Evolution, as "pagan and heathen minds trying to eliminate God from the Universe," and Mr. H. G. Wells' "Outline of History" as the "most humorous of all the humorous books published this century...
...There was a battle of cavalry against barbed wire, of riflemen against machine guns, of 2,000 pagan tribesmen against a mere 10 French. . . Ignorant and heedless the Druse horsemen charged the barbed wire . . . pennons and war flags flying . . . Their horses were caught, slashed ... a hellish scene of carnage . . . men and blood mingling amide stones and barbed wire...
After describing the concentration of French troops, planes and armored cars at Suedia, (on the seacoast due west of Aleppo) and the raking of Druse villages by French 75's, Correspondent Seldes added specific details. He spoke of "pagan tribesmen riding horses like mountain goats" and of "a Druse gendarme who welcomes Americans because he had relatives who rode in Barnum's circus." Beside a Greek ikon in a native stone hut, he found "a faded lithograph of Lillian Russell† in tights...