Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major quakes. Catastrophic shocks involving heavy loss of life average a little over one a year. Despite the safety of the U. S. east of the Rockies, this country had 62 quakes of moderate intensity in 1933. Safest place in the U. S. is New York City whose ancient rocks did their slipping and sliding aeons...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...individualism. . . . The avowed opponents of human rights-the Liberty Leaguers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association - can find scant consolation as their programs for doles, for balanced budgets, for gold standards, for free rein in the industrial field, are indirectly consigned to the wastepaper basket of ancient history. Let them heed the words of the President that 'we have undertaken a new order of things...
...activity of the House of Commons, if I may adapt and adopt an ancient phrase, 'is the activity of the soul and the way of virtue or not without virtue, and that, too, in a full sense.' I think the decision of Lord Denman, then Lord Chief Justice, in a case many years ago, is sufficient for the present purpose. Lord Denman said...
...week Mr. William Goadby Loew was some 25 years older, somewhat heavier, a great deal richer and a grandfather. Nevertheless, few accounts of any first flight social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...