Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears in photographs make me imagine him to be a cheap comedian. His pompous personal demonstrations do not appeal to the Arab, accustomed as we are to the simplicity of the Sahara. I wish I could be the first Arab to enroll as a volunteer to protect Ethiopia, the ancient friend of Mohammed! What a shame that Rome-the capital of Christianity-is attempting to enslave one of the most ancient Christian nations. It is something more than Power, it is Heathenism. It has divorced the Italians from Christian ethics...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...
...with the panel, she has supplied a handbook of footnotes and acknowledgments to the museums from which Mrs. Thomas purports to have obtained cultural research. Thus, beginning at the extreme left in ancient Egypt, Queen Nefertiti (adapted from a bust in Berlin's Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists...
...Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals. The director is Phil Whiting, professional Los Angeles pageant producer. A hidden orchestra plays softly, voices chant ancient church music. The Pilgrimage Play goes on nightly for ten weeks...
Last week the directors of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. declared their initial dividend, a 50? payment that marked the first return on a classic promotion. Just 20 years ago a Canadian prospector stumbled on a rusty streak of sulphide ore in the ancient rocks of northern Manitoba. Having grub-staked the prospector and his five partners, John E. ("Jack") Hammell made them a proposition: $100,000 for each prospector, $1,000,000 for himself if he could get it. Laughing uproariously, the prospectors agreed...