Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either a sweet or a pickle while nearby was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. Thenceforth came a sales-slogan ("Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet") on which millions were spent. Whether or not Mr. Hill is personally responsible for the newest Lucky Strike campaign ("An ancient prejudice has been removed") is not known. One explanation of the end of the $6 cigaret price was that leaf tobacco is more expensive this year. Another suggestion is that the move was originated by the Brothers George Kenan and Frederick Morrow who recently entered the tobacco industry (TIME, Sept...
...Pitkin's informant: "If this be a privilege reserved to psychologists or psychoanalysts, as Professor Pitkin is supposed to be, as well as a teacher in a school of journalism, then the privilege has long ago been usurped by the ghouls who invaded the tombs of the historic ancient dead, as Professor Pitkin now invades that noble sarcophagus in the National Cathedral in the Capital of the Nation...
...souls profoundly touched with indescribable emotion when we realized that the serene, impressive, apostolic, illuminating figure of our beloved Holy Father passed beyond the portals of St. Peter's, out under the blue dome of heaven, bearing Christ himself in the Holy Eucharist. Verified, surely, was the ancient truth: 'Where Peter is, there is the Church; where the Church is, there is Christ. This is our spiritual Inheritance that cannot fade.' (1 Peter...
Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose...
Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...