Word: 6th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time (6th century) Welsh harpers cast their harps into the River Conway, dived in themselves, swam, towed, hauled out their harps upon the further shore, plucked manfully but inaudibly at sodden strings. Followed a troop of Welsh singers. Having swum the Conway they sang no better and no worse than before. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of North Wales, thereupon welcomed the singers to the first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod, heaped their palms with gold, banished his harpers, proclaimed the confirmation through "trial by water" of his pet theory: that song is superior to instrumental music. Since then the Eisteddfod...
Percy R. Pyne, Secretary, 6th year...
...standing room only and not enough of that in the Press Box. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was showered with bouquets. The Maharajah of Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French-Canadian descent. Said he: "It is not to myself but to my country that this great honor was paid...
Meanwhile she had secured a divorce, and was married by the spirits to Colonel James H. Blood, Commander of the 6th Missouri Regiment, and President of the St. Louis Society of Spiritualists. Her ex-husband, Woodhull, then completely ruined, lived with them. This hurt her reputation...
...enjoy the fruits of their victory. If the classics are to go, their advocates will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they pull the temple with them. For, as has been previously announced, quake and eclipse are merely precursors of that more terrible calamity scheduled for February 6th, when the entire works--scientists, classicists, and everyone else--are to be eliminated in a common destruction...