Word: ancient
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Just in case someone wants to hear the most ancient TIMEly exposés of human nature "in the raw," I would like to have our good brethren preach from a text in the cave-lady episode of Genesis 19, concerning the love-feasts of the two daughters of Lot. No condemnation offered there either, in the Book...
...piped Nebraska's Norris: "The reason for such a provision is not the ancient, barbaric rule that a king could do no wrong, but a modern rule of self-preservation. ... If there is no limit on the right of a citizen to sue the Government, I do not see how the Government can exist...
...secretive retirement one day last week emerged George V's venerable uncle, the Duke of Connaught. Third and only surviving son of Queen Victoria, Arthur William Patrick Albert Windsor is the one member of the Royal Family today who dislikes publicity. Last week, habited in a sweeping mantle of ancient cut, he entered the gloom of Westminster Abbey preceded by the official known as King of Arms...
...portal opened, in strode Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they...
...weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after a general reshuffling of households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief who gave Ethnologist Lowie much information on ancient Crow ways and legend, had been a savage Galahad in his youth. Deeply loving his wife, he had nevertheless forced her to accompany her kidnapper out of respect for Crow etiquette. "If you have ever been married, you know how I felt," the old Crow told Ethnologist Lowie. Had he resisted...