Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lecture Hall at quarter past three yesterday afternoon five proctors started to distribute the ancient author examinations in Sophocles. At seventeen minutes past the proctor in the middle aisle ran out of papers. He thought for a moment, then he went to the central desk. He obtained the remaining papers and distributed them. There was still a fringe of snapping fingers in the outer seats and there were no more examination papers. Precisely enough had been printed to supply those who had registered for the examination. The arrival of several unregistered examinees had left the proctors in the situation...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...canal. 2) A test case about the Ku Klux Klan-whether it is constitutional for States to require secret organizations to put their secrets on file. 3) A test case about Shriners-whether persons founding fraternal orders may closely copy or parody the names of established orders like the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. (Negroes substituted "Egyptian" for "Arabic." Texans got an injunction...
...Imperial couple's new home, with its high roof, its stucco walls, its stone front, is more an English mansion than a Japanese residence. Within, awaiting them, were the ancient customary gifts: the Tai, king of fishes, the cask of purified saké, the hemp, incense, seaweed. There also was the bride's elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess...
...Thomas Esmonde and his Lady Anna Frances delayed the sailing of the Cedric for eight minutes, because they had forgotten some jewels as ancient as King Charles II. A taxicab race was a feature of the recovery...