Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he spoke last spring at Gettysburg he struck his keynote of popularity: "We are all brothers now in a new understanding." He struck it in a sterner mood when reproving the old order at Green Bay: "My friends, the people of the United States will not restore that ancient order!" He struck it sentimentally in his radio speech last September: "My friends, I still believe in ideals." He struck it in Tupelo where he defended his power program; "This is not regimentation-it is community rugged individualism." And with more inspiration at Harrodsburg: "We pioneers...
...runs best in what are called "The Shires"-Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Northamptonshire, where gently rolling hills make it easy to stay with the hounds and the humid air makes for good scent. One of the noblest of the Shires' hunts is the ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream...
Seeking means to ingratiate themselves with Benito Mussolini, certain zealous Italians have founded the Action Committee for the Universality of Rome. Their grandiose gospel amounts to identifying 20th Century Fascism prophetically with the ancient Pax Romano, and its glories. Frankly pleased, Orator Mussolini now often indulges in verbal orgies about the Universality of Rome, but as a practical, pragmatic ruler Premier Mus solini knows exactly where the U. of R. stops today, namely, at Italy's frontiers. With characteristic prudence, II Duce did not permit his Fascist Party to be represented in Montreux, Switzerland last week at the first...
...indeed a major inside job, the only kind of job that could conceivably get the Dictator himself. On the growing hypothesis that steel-nerved Stalin for once has been badly scared, his executions of "pure terror'' and continued arrests were understandable last week. Down in Kiev, ancient, church-jammed Mother Town of All The Russias, star chamber trials continued under famed Judge Ulrich. Meanwhile Comrade Nicolaev, the assassin of "Dear Friend Sergei," remained alive awaiting trial...
...practical politicians who nest in the U. S. Capitol feel beyond their depth in the economic theories of the New Deal, but the ancient game of trading votes is something near & dear to their hearts. Last week the unofficial but altogether real business of choosing a new Speaker of the House to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey gave them a chance fairly to wallow in their favorite pastime...