Word: ancient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aged Threat. Only one pacific voice was raised in Nippon last week, that of ancient Count Koken Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household who suddenly emerged from retirement and announced that unless the present Government did not immediately adopt measures to allay unemployment and save poor Japanese citizens from starvation, he would cut open his 90-year-old belly in protest to the Emperor's Ear, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saonji...
...bankruptcy court, Charles Lancaster Co., famed gunmakers, blamed its insolvency on 1) loss of customers killed in the War, 2) the popularity of automobiles, 3) high tariffs, 4) changed social conditions. ¶ In Ickornshaw, Yorkshire, where Viscount Philip Snowden was born, hundreds of jobless men took advantage of their ancient right of free shooting, reaped handsome profits, spoiled the shooting for sportsmen. ¶ At Balmoral the King & Queen were expected this week. In anticipation of their coming the Glasgow Sunday Mail treated its readers to an intimate, not particularly respectful description of the royal train. Said the Mail: "Not even...
...little hotels of Montmartre the loose ladies of Paris celebrated the destruction of another prison almost as old: St. Lazare, handed over to the wreckers Aug. 9. For 141 years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse...
...York City guidebooks explain that the Tombs, erected in 1838, "was the most perfect example of ancient Egyptian architecture outside of Egypt." Most of the original Tombs was razed. When the present prison (New York City's worst) was erected in 1898 it retained the old popular name though its architecture is totally unlike the Tombs...
Where there ain't no ancient history to bother...