Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...
Socially well-posted U. S. Negroes know that at Rome resides the most ancient and patrician aristocracy in Europe. Prince Massimo of Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night...
Later, and in a more quiet mood, Pastor Straton found the opportunity to say: "... While Warren [his son] was praying, the power of God came over him just as it did over Paul and struck him down in the dust, as it came in ancient times over whole companies of men. I am not ashamed of it, nor is my son ashamed of it.... I am not a publicity hound.... I have been fighting unrighteousness since I came down to New York, and I have been doing it in a corner. What I would rather do than anything else...
...Woman of Bronze. Seeing this revival of Margaret Anglin's onetime success is like reading last year's almanac. It is not ancient enough to be antique or new enough to be curious, or great enough for the decades. It is just faded. There are offered in stock: 1) an artist, married but fascinated by his model, 2) a wife, married to the artist and ready to "fight for him," 3) a model, beautiful but not for long. In the end the artist comes back home. Most interest attaches to Miss Anglin, who, dedicated in the past...
This June day of 1927 is, then, an epic moment in an epic history. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...