Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proof that the ancient Chinese were by no means lacking in a sense of humor is a series of caricatures portraying the various types of poets. Notwithstanding the detail of slanted eyes, many of our contemporary types from long-haired Bohemians to gray-bearded George Bernard Shaws may be recognized with the help of an active imagination...
...keep the Italian Minister, Count Vinci-Gigliucci from being lynched, the Emperor had to seat that diplomat close to himself. Brandishing ancient guns and showing empty cartridge belts, fierce tribesmen kept shouting at their sovereign, "Give us bullets! We want to shoot!" Meanwhile Ethiopia's Coptic clergy, supposed to play a prominent role in celebrating the end of the rainy season, were repeatedly driven indoors by a violent tropical storm which raged around His Majesty with shrill tempest screeches until the ground was covered with three inches of water and pasteboard coronation emblems were washed from the Triumphal Arch...
...that they knew of the Cleveland Congress and its aims and would pray for its success. Of the faithful millions, some 200.000 were devoutly setting out all over the land and in the Manhattan Cathedral the Cardinal and his entourage knelt briefly, chanted the Itinerarium, an ancient prayer of the Church for those about to depart on a journey...
...unaware that his Muse was often mute to his friends. Even as a little lad, Plato was his teacher; and philosophy his friend. He recalls his preference for the tales of the ancient sages; and the disappointment of his nurse who loved to read him fairy tales. There was a story of a wise man who lived in a tub and told an emporor to stand out of his light; there was a tale of a man who fell in a well while looking at the stars; and once upon a time there was a philosopher who plucked the feathers...
...Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-11, and Associate Professor of Classics at McGill, 1911-15. After service in the army, 1915-19, he was appointed Professor of Latin at the University College of Wales, a position which he held until 1927. He is the author of numerous works on ancient classical cultures and mythology...