Word: solomonic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...
...Said Solomon (rhetorically) to the Sluggard: "Go to the ant!" No sluggard, but a scientific inquirer whose researches have not damped his mystical inquisitiveness, Maurice Maeterlinck has gone to the ant, observed its actions, noted down many a formicine phenomenon in this exciting little book...
...Matter of fact the people of Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, are of every color from coal black through tawny brown to olive, include many non-Afric races. Centuries ago scornful Arabs nicknamed them Abyssinians ("mixed peoples"). Today members of the Royal House are strongly Semitized, claim descent from Hebrew King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, profess the religion of Coptic Christianity, acknowledge as their pope the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria...
...Charles Brown Grace, 24, son of Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Gifford Grace, was exonerated in connection with the death of one Solomon Balsam who was riding on the running board of an automobile which collided with Grace's in Pittsburgh, night of Sept. 26. One Allan Golub, 22, of Pittsburgh, driver of the other car, was held for manslaughter...
...Gentlemen," cried the well-dressed young man, "I am twenty-one! Will you hear me? Solomon once prayed for wisdom, and I pray for wisdom. I have a message of Youth to deliver. I am speaking, gentlemen, to help Humanity-yet you laugh...