Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hills (Virginia Milne) and reiterates his call to preach the Word. Finally the strumpet's father takes up his squirrel rifle and puts a bullet through the novice preacher's heart. Sighs the boy's aunt: "You was too big for your britches." Of such ancient and sure-fire material, the authors have made a puttering first act, a stirring second and third...
...into a Culture Chamber and Orator Hitler spoke for a time on Kultur. The only female in his audience was beauteous Leni Riefenstahl. the Realmleader's cinema favorite.* Perspiring freely as he wrestled with his subject, the Realmleader cried: "To be German means to be clear! The Greeks of ancient Athens were akin to the National Socialists of today. Only a pure race can create high art. National Socialism is a reaction against Jewish intellectualism. It is a return to intuition. . . . Literature has done more than anything else to alienate peoples. . . . Sensation-hungry foreign correspondents would do well to discover...
...Revive the ancient Roman pillory by ostracism in "symbolic modern form" by allowing judges to order pictures of malefactors to be flashed on cinema screens and their names shouted over the radio while their misdeeds are denounced...
...suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic of Florence...
...banker friends telephoned him to go over to Fifth Avenue & 14th Street. Hearn's was for sale, they said. Mr. Levin protested that he knew nothing about department stores, had in fact never been inside one. But he put on his hat and went over. Inside the ancient barnlike building 450 employes waited forlornly for the store to collapse. Sales for the previous year had been barely $5,000,000. Inventories were down to nothing and few manufacturers dared extend credit to Hearn's. So Mr. Levin bought the store...