Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Druses to cease hostilities at once and participate with the French authorities in drawing up a constitution for the Druse state (now a loose federation of tribes held together chiefly by the bond of their ancient and peculiar Druse religion...
...religious culture. His younger brother, the dramastist-poet Prince William, Duke of Sodermanland, is perhaps better known abroad (TIME, Oct. 19). But the activities of Crown Prince Gustaf, in connection with the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq), his archeological excavations on the site of ancient Asine, and his work as a member of the Swedish Olympic Committee, have attracted considerable quiet notice. His most widely bruited remark was allegedly made to Lady Louise of Mountbatten (formerly Princess of Battenburg) at the time when she was being pressed to marry him by his second cousin George...
Aside from such occasional, rather "complimentary censure," Signora Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...
Louis XVI lived to see France a republic and to hear himself called "Citoyen Capet". The less ancient but no less royal dynasty of Hohenzollern still lives in three generations, and the head of the house has turned from ruling a nation to chopping wood. Platz der Republik becomes the herald of a new order which sees Germany exchange her place in the sun for a seat in the League of Nations...
After going down forty feet a little niche was found in the wall of the shaft. Within it was the head of a bull, roughly embalmed. From inscriptions relation to ancient burial customs it is believed that the royal occupant of the tomb may be shrouded in the skin of the bull itself far below...