Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bride, handsome, wholesome, dark-browed Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 33, daughter of an ancient fighting family of Border Scots, was given a total of five tiaras by the groom's family...
...bicycle, it would seem, is back to stay. Encouraged by the example of certain irreproachable members of the Faculty and the clever advertisements of a local renting agency, Cantabridgians have given' the ancient two-wheeled, leather-saddled mode of transportation a fling which has developed carmarks of permanency. The vast numbers of bare-kneed girls, uncoated college students, and towsic-headed youngsters who cycle daily render the pleasure of wheeling an unquestionable quantity. The one great question which perplexes the minds of prospective cyclists is a place to cycle...
...Sept. 27 to 29 there was held a jubilee in honor of Father Taelman of St. Ignatius, Mont. To this jubilee we sent relics and ancient costumes. . . . The tag which we were seen pulling off the costume was merely the exhibit tag. Our dignity has been offended and we have been incensed by these statements in your paper...
...Majesty's subjects this revelation that the royal bride can and does recite passages from the Highway Act augured that Queen Mary has at last found the perfect royal daughter-in-law, recalled the late Prince Consort Albert whose ability to recite excerpts from State papers ancient and modern has been equaled by no member of the Royal Family since...
...Olympic Games were revived from the grave of ancient Greece by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896 to encourage international amity. They have been held eight times since, never without disorders ranging from disputed decisions to international scandals...