Word: sennacherib
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the part of the strong. Page Pharaoh, page Nebuchadnezzar,* and Sennacherib,† page Nero and Napoleon! Or consider our own country today...
...Sennacherib, King of Assyria...
...ancient Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib were no sucklings in the art of nepotism,† but in Babylon, L. I., where hanging gardens are merely geranium pots, Joseph P. Warta, town supervisor, kept alive Euphratean tradition. He saw to it that his son, aged 17, was appointed Inspector of Roads, paid...
...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...
...Significance. It happens 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...