Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spontaneity, friendliness. While he was nasal in his office, she was melodious at the East Room piano. While he made a name by the negative means of vetoes and economies, she knitted the name into a quilt which will be at the White House when the Coolidge Era is ancient history. Her quilt, finished long before "I do not choose" was written, says...
Also there was a parade of butchers, millers, coopers and brewers. Standard bearers held aloft their ancient guild emblems and heralds, twinkling in gilded costumes, blew trumpets...
...took over the Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...
...Ancient Roman Emperor Augustus, a great bath lover, would have joyed to behold the swimming pool on his namesake ship. It is on the top deck, under the sunshine, where it ought to be. All other big ship pools are many decks down, steamy, stuffy...
Such were the seven who had sworn "on Scopy's book" (an ancient "Cyclopedia of Nursery Remedies") that never again would they allow themselves to be separated and parcelled out to their various undeserving parents. For of parents there were almost as many as children: The Wheaters sponsored Judy, the twins, and after divorce and remarriage, Chipstone, badge of truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters...