Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electric bulbs outside Promoter Tex Rickard's vast new sport arena in Manhattan blazoned a great name. Dapper dandies called up shingled dames and told them. Mayor Walker promised to occupy a ringside box. Ancient hooligans of the Roaring Forties cadged the entrance fee. Gorgeous Georges Carpentier motored over from his hotel. The bulbs were flaring forth: "Fitzsimmons...
...ancient lineage, the Nordyke & Marmon Co. modestly set forth net earnings of $2,150,000. This record of the company's 75th year redounded largely to the credit of G. M. Williams, who took hold in the summer of 1924. Gross sales last year exceeded...
Before despatching this splendid symbol to Brussels, his Holiness waited until mass was over, then blessed the Rose, sprinkled it with holy water, read the ancient prayers of the Rite of the Golden Rose, and imparted his Apostolic Blessing, while a master of ceremonies held the gift in his hands, kneeling at the Pope's feet...
Professor Fairclough has taught the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome in the important intellectual centers of both the Old and the New Worlds. At the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, at the University of Berlin, and in colleges of the United States from California to the Atlantic Coast...
...must differ from most people, at least most people around Cambridge. They know the whys and whats or everything, at least almost everything. I don't suppose many of them could tell me just why "Bozo" Snyder and "Sliding" Billy Watson are the leaders in that sacred and ancient art--burlesque, or why those two brethren of the buskin bow to Boston audiences at the same time. These whats and whys are not sufficiently esoteric. One can find them without entering all those mills which are not of God and grind even more slowly. Yet to some people and occasionally...