Word: esau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should not wear short dresses." And even if the girls in question discreetly whisper a depilatory solution, the Harvard athlete would probably be no more willing to give up their Esau birthright than to wear silk stockings which leave little to the imagination. It is decidedly unsportsmanlike for the fair sex to deny the male entrance to their domain of flaunting legs and it is hardly politic that they should be so disconcerted by a hairy leg that they create...
...voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. This Biblical quotation might last week have served as an epitaph for the famed White House Spokesman, born 1924, died 1927. He was brought into being by Washington correspondents, who, forbidden to quote directly what President Coolidge said at bi-weekly White House conferences, invented the Spokesman as their authority...
Jacob's Dream. Continuing to stick its tongue out at common sense reality, the Habima Company adds another to its weird repertory, this last, however, being of less sombre stuff. As the title suggests, the play contains the familiar characters: Jacob, Rebekah, Esau; the familiar implements: the ladder, the mess of pottage. But it strays from the story told in the Sunday School texts. However, the Habima Players know their Old Testament well enough to keep the spiritual significance intact. Moreover, they know their theatre...
What though thy name is George, art thou not Esau...
...RANKIN OF MISSISSIPPI: "Ah, Mr. Speaker, say what you please about this bill, this is the Mellon compensation bill. It is the product of the 'hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob,' and the ex-service men of this country are going to so regard...