Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even in his lifetime Sir Walter Scott was a hero. He earned $1,000,000 by his pen, probably more than any man before him. He dug up and popularized ancient ballads and legends, versifying whole sections of them in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Lay of the Last Minstrel while galloping about in cavalry maneuvers. With The Lady of the Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott...
...Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government at Nanking may expect to be wiped from the map while ancient glory is restored to PEKING...
There is one sport that fulfills all these conditions, an ancient sport beloved of men from time immemorial--horse racing. Instead of a football fight with its enormous draft on the energies of its devotees and its tell of young life, let us introduce in the colleges the humane and noble sport of horse racing...
...move is in duties. The company had much trouble with labor unions in Havana, could not speed production, teach new methods. In Trenton, while the wrapping will be done by hand, automatic Cellophane wrappers will handle 1,000 cigars for 90? against the $4 manual cost in Cuba. The ancient custom of each operator taking six cigars a day gratis will be abandoned and Trenton's girlworkers will hear a piano instead of the "reader" who entertains all Cuban cigarmakers with stories and political discussions, often...
...museum founder, Mr. Huntington is chiefly responsible for the Museum of the Hispanic Society of America and the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Last year he set aside a section of his estate near Camden, S. C. as a sanctuary for ancient mules and offered to pay $20 apiece for broken down jacks and jennies until the mule migration from North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama became more than he could cope with...