Word: repenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent" as "get wise to yourself," "Give us our daily bread" as "Give us good bread, fresh daily." Dr. Bailey's Gospels variously call miracles "the breaks," "doing wonders" and "indications...
...nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety. In the original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
...like burlesque and Annabella, relax for three hours at the University; if you dislike to see Shakspere used to confound the unenlightened, and to watch English producers get horribly involved in their machinations to make a mystery picture mysterious, fidget and repent that you did not go elsewhere...
Make us to know the awful judgment of God which rests upon those having any personal part in lynching, and upon every community and State, and upon our people as a whole until we shall repent and turn away from this taking of human life...
...well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...