Word: upharsin
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...doctored stories themselves had little effect. Councilmogul Al Vellucci, however, did sell his yacht upon reading about the Charles River parking lot. Balthazar Ali Khan called in to report his name was spelled Belshazzar. "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin," he warned...
...Camp Hill (Pa.) grandmother and Bible student, Mrs. Catherine E. Kreitzer, kept alive the suspense of The $64,000 Question. She got by the $8,000 question by naming in order the Aramaic words in the "handwriting on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast ("mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"). Mrs. Kreitzer will decide this week whether she will go for the $16,000 question...
Meoe, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Men find it hard to read the true meaning of most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under...
...putting its best foot forward in an attempt to emulate Biblical heroes. Weird psychie phenomena such as Sir Oliver Lodge has been known to demonstrate are often considered on a par with Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream or with the handwriting on the wall. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Moreover, by directing with much success and grandeur the crossing of the Red Sea, Cecil De Mille claims recognition as having out-manoeuvered Moses...
According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...
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