Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interest in dynastic affairs, once so keen, has waned. But the anonymous communication printed above illustrates the persistence of the fascination of the ancient game...
...speak of debts; for more than 2,000 years the modern world has been trying to pay its debt to ancient Greece, and the obligation grows heavier rather than lighter with each passing year-So it will be with France...
Some big, shaggy Tian Shan ibexes, shaggier Tian Shan sheep, still shaggier Asiatic bears, some Siberian roe (small deer), some Tahr gazelles, some goitered gazelles, and some 600 small birds and mammals, all dead and on the pack ponies of two lively brothers Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar (eastern Turkestan) last week. "Fine success," cable those sons of a great hunter, Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie...
...tale is told of an ancient king...
Under the title of "Theatres, Ancient and Modern," Mr. Dean showed how the drama had gone through a clearly marked cycle from the drama of the Greeks down to the present day. Mr. Dean found that we are at present returning to the Greek ideals in both the mechanical and artistic sides...