Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation: For I Heard Them Say, "Let Us Go To Dothan."- Genesis 37: 17, referring to the village in ancient Palestine where Joseph's brothers stripped him of his coat of many colors...
...educated at the Peeresses' School, where little Japanese princesses, even in their games, never forgot their rank or the distinction of their families. Shidzué's mother played the part of a samurai's wife as if giving a theatrical performance. Training her daughter in ancient Japanese graces, she made Shidzué study the difficult tea ceremony, saw to it that she mastered the intricate technique of flower arrangement. Shidzué felt about these instructions much as a Western child might feel about her music lessons...
...researcher and maker of fine instruments, plays, somewhat badly, in ensemble with his wife, his two daughters, his two sons, his in-laws. Better known for their records (Victor) than for concerts are Ben Stad, Dutch-born Philadelphian who began as a violinist, and his American Society of the Ancient Instruments. This is also a family affair, composed of Mrs. Stad, a son, a brother-in-law and a close friend named Jo Brodo who plays the quinton (five-stringed treble viol...
...bell in Leningrad, 1,500 physiologists perked up their ears, demonstrating how bell-conditioned they were to expect a speech. Dr. Pavlov told them what he had told the neurologists in London fortnight before, that dogs have the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholy temperaments which Hippocrates discerned among ancient Greeks...
...Archibald M. Willard. Some may be aware that the first hangs in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art but few indeed know that the original of The Spirit of '76 is the particular pride of Marblehead, Mass, where it adorns that smug Boston suburb's ancient Abbott Hall...