Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unless Democrats prevent, which is unlikely, Mrs. McCormick will be elected to Congress in November. She will undoubtedly make an active, vigorous member; for while the locations of her four residences-a ranch in Wyoming; a farm at little Byron, Ill..; a camp in Virginia; an ancient manor in Georgetown, well out of Washington-bespeak her inclination to "get away from it all," still she is far more the intense realist than the intellectual recluse. She sees no sex in statesmanship. She says she knows some women who are qualified right now for Cabinet positions. Some day, she says...
Last week the Imperial Household Ministry let fall, provisionally, words and dates significant to the smart. On Nov. 3, 1928, the Tenno will depart amid pomp from Tokyo, and arrive next day at the ancient capital of Kyoto. There he will be crowned on Nov. 7, and will pass the subsequent week in "Sacred Rituals and Banquets...
Galapagos Islands (private recreation). Off the equatorial west coast of South America lie the Galapagos Islands, longtime home of quaint fowl and ancient reptiles, onetime base of buccaneer expeditions. Now Ecuador owns and the U. S. explores them. Most recent pryers about the islands have been William K. Vanderbilt II and his wife, trapping sapphire-eyed cormorants, penguins pompous as bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation...
Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...modification and, in some cases, the dissolution of ancient religions, effected by new scientific and commercial influences on men's thought...