Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worried about Rita. He was sure that Solomon O'Cabot was his rival and on the fair way to be a successful one. He would ask good old John; John somehow knew about such things...
...sauntered slowly over to morning chapel he was still in an agony of doubt. Solomon was a bigger man than he. He had been on the Lampoon, and had been the beau ideal of Radcliffe for four years, called the waiters in the Sahara by the first names, had been in the first fifteen in the Dramatic Club...
...Solomon, when he was a youngster, he remembers, sowed his wild oats. What, though, does he say when he grows old? He says: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink. . . . This time the question was: Could anything more arrantly pagan be suggested to sincere Christians...
From the last verse of ECCLESIASTES to the first of the SONG OF SOLOMON is but an eye-skip across the page. Stern Puritans used to say that Solomon's SONG OF SONGS is a book which Christians had better whistle than recite...
...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...