Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred Knights and Ladies decided to charter a special steam yacht and cruise to the Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
...Theatre of the Revolution and Semperante Theatre of Improvization (both founded in 1920). Respectively a repertoire of post-revolutionary plans and a series of dramas improvised on the spot by the actors, in the manner of the ancient Italian Commedia dell Arte...
Lysistrata is of course Aristophanes' ancient comedy of feminism. The Russians have chosen to exhibit an extremely rowdy and briskly amusing version. If the police commissioner could understand it there would certainly be difficulties. But he cannot nor can much of the population, and what does anybody care about the morals of anyone so obviously peculiar as to speak Russian...
...great housing works which must soon be undertaken to provide for he large surplus of population. Then, too, America has embodied the brilliant cultural ideals of the Golden Age of Greece in this new building on Grecian soil. The modern world has combinea its contribution of efficiency with ancient architectural greatness to provide a beacon for a rejuvenated Greece...
...authorities quoted in the current Literary Digest may be taken at all seriously, the citizens of the Austrian republic are looking to union with Germany as the ultimate solution for their problems. Thus another ancient anomaly, long an eyesore on the map of Europe, will be no more. Such a possibility need surprise no one. The wonder is only that the mutual interests of tiny Austria and still formidable Germany had not been evident enough to cause comment much sooner after...