Word: parthian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parthian rounded the horn, sailed northwestward. Aboard with his wife was Dr. Gerrit P. Judd. a Yankee physician sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics...
Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...
...night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek athletes have revived the Parthian games...