Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hottest defense of all came from the nation's Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins in Washington. Newshawks who trooped into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
...topsy-turvy Danzig politics have become appeared when Dr. Hermann Rauschning, the Danziger who headed the local Hitler ticket two years ago and won a working majority, abruptly declared that his eyes have now been opened to the real designs of Nazidom upon the ancient Free City and last week appealed to Danzigers to vote anti-Nazi...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper, 32-degree Mason, became a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine when its imperial potentate, the potentate of Almas Temple (Washington), one deputy imperial Potentate and one plain Shriner marched into his office, conducted a private initiation, marched out again...
Some years ago in Rome. King Gustaf V of Sweden and his Queen Victoria paid a visit to an ancient house on the Campo di Fiori near the bank of the Tiber. Good Lutherans as they must be by law, the monarchs of Sweden were interested in the house because there, in 1373, died a great and pious Swedish woman, St. Bridget. In the chapel they viewed relics of the founder of the Brigittine Order. Then Queen Victoria spied a nun in a habit different from those of the barefoot Carmelites who occupied the house. She spoke...
...Charles Marston is spending much of his bicycle fortune for archeological research because he believes the world is a little better off every time his diggers confirm some scrap of Biblical history. Marston-financed is the expedition of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of London, now probing the site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first temple in 970 B. C. to the Babylonian conquest...