Word: saith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies and their husbands from the New Willard Hotel to the Congregational Church. Now the President's automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge still goes thither, but the Vice President's car carries Mr. and Mrs. Dawes to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. And furthermore Town Topics saith the Vice President has a "stubborn streak"; he will not be submerged in the brilliance of the Chief Executive...
...that the story of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle was set down in the last century and consigned to comparative obscurity, but its complete realism might tag it as written yesterday. Haldane Macfall wrote of Negro life in all its comic fullness, yet refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn...
...Isaac, Jacob; prepared to celebrate the high holy days of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Shmimi Atzereh; greeted the year 5685. Most of them were in the U. S.-Israelites of the circumcision. They recalled the days when Moses and Aaron and Joshua would say unto the twelve tribes-: "Thus saith the Lord...
Rome. The painted Hall of Consistory. Exeunt omnes. The Pope in a seamless robe of white is left alone with Cardinals scarlet-clad. Quid vobis videtur? Thus saith the Pope: "Therefore by the authority of God Almighty, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority we nominate the Most Reverend George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and the Most Reverend Patrick Hayes, Archbishop of New York, Gardinals of the Holy Roman Church...
...state that Smith's downfall came about, in 1844. The Book of Mormon had expressly forbidden, polygamy: "There shall not any man have save it be one wife and concubines he shall have none, for I the Lord God delighteth in the chastity of women. . . . For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people, otherwise they shall hearken unto these things." In 1843, Smith had a " revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing it for some years. When the purport of the new revelation...