Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, perusing the Evening Star, saw another press notice about Steve. It reported that the local Chamber of Commerce's transportation committee had recommended to the District Commissioners that Steve's stand be removed as an obstruction to traffic, that Steve, who has certain ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried...
Wilmington, Del. is famed as the seat of the du Pont plants and patriarchy. New Castle, six miles south, an ancient and lovely architectural museum whose inhabitants still benefit from the 1,068 acres William Penn deeded them in 1701, occasionally makes a little news paragraph when the warden of the county jail legally uses his cat-o'-nine-tails on a darky chicken thief. Thirty-eight miles still farther south in Delaware is an important little town almost never heard of: Dover, founded in 1717 by William Penn on the St. Jones River...
...course, no precedents for The March of TIME.' There was never anything of its kind before. Its technique was invented only after many experiments with the problem of presenting current events over the radio. The result is a new kind of historical drama-the drama not of ancient history but of current history. ''Both you and the Editors of TIME will miss the voice presence of the chief actor in our nation's current history. 'The March of TIME' has followed Franklin Delano Roosevelt through his great campaign of 1932 and through most...
Speicher. Poles apart are Joan Miro and Eugene Speicher who last week gave his first exhibition in five years at Manhattan's Rehn Galleries. With his feet firmly on the ancient tradition of graphic arts, Artist Speicher has grown firmer in his draughtsmanship, more sure of what he wants to say with each passing year. In 1929 he seemed an able, uninspired follower of the late great George Wesley Bellows, without the latter's vivid interest in living problems. In 1934, as in 1929, Eugene Speicher remains wrapped in the penciled brows of his statuesque beauties, though technically...
...long grey-blue knife gash amid the heathery Highlands of Northern Scotland is Loch Ness. Beside it rears the ruined pile of ancient Castle Urquhart. Nearest town of any size is Inverness, seven miles away. All around is the immemorial home of kelpies, bogles, Warlocks, White Ladies...