Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pince nez and laid them beside his manuscript. Then spreading his feet wide, he took a firm grip on the sides of the desk. "Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. . . ." Solemnly the best radio voice in the U. S. pronounced the ancient formula by which a President begins his annual message to Congress on the State of the Union.* But neither the 600 auditors below nor the 600 auditors above were his real audience. That audience, consisting of no man knew how many radio listeners throughout...
Goodness & Wisdom, Without quibble or qualification the best and wisest ruler ancient Ethiopia has ever had is the present Man of the Year...
...seduction by King Solomon of Sheba's Virgin Queen is pure myth. Last month Oxford's University Press exploded it anew with A History of Abyssinia ($2.25) in which the adoption of this legend by Coptic priests to give Ethiopia's present dynasty a savor of ancient lineage and of Biblical if not Divine authority is traced with British scholarship...
Szechwan's earthquake was mighty enough to rearrange the map of Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...year-old son, Artist Marin gave himself the luxury of a private studio for the first time in his life two months ago. He knocked the partition out between two small rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor, but Pertaining to Stonington Harbor...