Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides this desire to improve the academic mind, the action of the University shows that it is guarding the ancient, profound, and typically American respect for the law. The pursuit of happiness is man's inalienable right: to get caught for its obviously unpatriotic...
Last week's visit definitely endear this. Nevertheless, it is considered likely that the Pope's first visit in Rome will be with some such person as Prince Marco Antonio Colonna, whose family, as result of an ancient squabble, still takes turns with the Orsini at supplying a Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, an honorary post which permits wearing fancy uniforms...
Wayward (Paramount). The casual cinemaddict will be vaguely bothered by trying to remember whether he has either read the story or seen the picture before. Actually he has done both. There has been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy...
Like his King, whose mouthpiece he is, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, Baron of Bessborough, Viscount Duncannon, Baron Ponsonby, Baron Duncannon, opened the Dominion Parliament last week with pomp & splendor imitative of the ancient rituals of Westminster. Unlike George V, who uses a coach & eight, the Governor General rode to the Houses of Parliament in an automobile. As the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower struck three, Princess Louise Dragoons escorted him into the Parliamentary Driveway, stiff lines of foot soldiers snapped to salute, a band played "God Save the King." Out stepped Lord Bessborough, Lady Bessborough...
...sight of the Press, shuttled back and forth between the Emperor and the politicians, while Japan was making history in China. Foreign Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa talked for two hours with him, told him of all the diplomatic stir caused by Japan's action at Shanghai. Then the ancient Genro hurried to report the conversation to his Emperor and receive his instructions. Never was the old man's ripe wisdom so urgently needed...