Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were also some mutterings about the sentimental value of traditions which we hooted down on the familiar grounds that outworn traditions are the enemies of progress. It was noticeable, too, that the voices raised in defense of ancient custom came from individuals who lived far away from Nassau Hall...
...Queen Mary sat a little lower than King George. Edward of Wales sat below his parents' dais. Glittering peeresses who have no legislative seats (even when they are peeresses in their own rights), jammed their places. When members of the House of Commons came pushing and jostling (by ancient ritual) to the bar of the House of Lords, several peeresses happened to raise their lorgnettes in unison, thus made it possible for one naïve correspondent to cable that "peeresses turned and glared...
Once the present Republic of Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...
While the Godless cheered, Red Soldiers shinnied up the steeple, tied ropes to it. A snorting tractor-symbol of the Five-Year Plan-was hitched to the ropes, snorted, backfired, got under way and pulled down not only Kolpana's spire but half the ancient church with it. Rushing into the ruins, Godless comrades seized and carried off the church's simple brass & copper fixtures, "needed to make Soviet airplanes...
...English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...