Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner of the day's laurels, had disappeared at a late hour last night. Foul play is suspected in official circles, but there are same who still cling to the suicide theory. They base their opinion on a study of the sex life of the ancient receptacle. "It may have been old," one expert said, "but it was still a loving...
...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Williams Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Shoot False Love Morley Galway Piper An Irish Folk Song In Dulei lubilo An Ancient German Carol Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherlands Folk Song College Songs
...More famed, not so ancient, is the Passion Play presented at ten-year intervals by the inhabitants of Oberammergau, Germany. This version began...
...galleries, courtyards and abodes of the Vatican Palace are ancient, convolved, mysterious. So darkly rooted is the Papal tradition of secrecy that only last week was the United Press able to report an accident which occurred in hushed Vatican precincts some seven months ago, and is thought to have influenced the Pontiff's recent decision to sell the last of his horses...
...fortnight ago the world received calmly the news that General Juan Vicente Gomez had been unanimously re-elected President of Venezuela. To every black-eyed Venezuelan boy it has been one of the fixed and immutable facts of life that ancient, crafty, blue-spectacled Gomez is and ever shall be President of Venezuela, as he has been for 20 years...