Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in Massachusetts, one of the Big Three (the others are Pennsylvania, New York) whose Republican bosses want uninstructed delegations with which to control the Convention. In Massachusetts, Governor Alvin Tufts ("Peter Bond") Fuller revolted against Boss William Morgan Butler, refused to be an instructed delegate and told the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company that "the next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith...
Authorities at the American Museum of Natural History, last week, candidly stated that in one particular they had been wrong, and the late William Jennings Bryan and his Fundamentalist disciples right. The particular was an old tooth, found five years ago by Paleontologist Harold Cook, in an ancient Nebraska river...
Recent diggings in Nebraska revealed a few similar and more perfect teeth. These the museum staff had studied and were delighted to learn that they had erred in their first deduction. The teeth, they announced last week, had served no anthropoidal beast, but an ancient, bristly, snub-nosed pig, a peccary, rooting in Nebraska several millenia...
...Story. On the shores of Lake Undega in New York State is Berkenmeer. Its Main Street has a gaudy haberdashery shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such...
...Clergy and Laity in the History of the Ancient Church," Professor La Piana Andover...