Word: nebuchadnezzar
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...Jewess Judith beguiles the general Holofernes, comes from King Nebuchadnezzar to capture the city of Bethulia. She chops off his head, exhibits it proudly to her people...
...Nebuchadnezzar! No more than a beast...
Following this so excellent example, the modern world is 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...
...last week 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...
...Dartmouth College against the State of New Hampshire before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1819. He won the case when Chief Justice John Marshall handed down that famed decision prohibiting State interference with private charters and establishing the first great victory of the Federal Constitution over State rights. *Nebuchadnezzar, Chaldean King of Babylon (about...