Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a silent House of Representatives stood Wright Patman, a pink- cheeked, curly-headed young Democratic Congressman from Texas repeating an ancient and awful parliamentary ritual. A legislative neophyte in his second term, he should, by rights, have been sitting quietly in a back row listening to his elders debate great issues. Instead, he was leaping recklessly forward to invoke the most solemn provision of the Constitution to remove from the Cabinet its most venerable member...
...thrift than for convenience. If he breaks a favorite club, a golfer can screw in an identical shaft from another club without leaving the course. British golfers-including the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Prince Arthur of Connaught-have used "Rangefinder Rapier clubs," approved by the Royal & Ancient St. Andrews Golf Club, for two years. The shafts-made of steel, with thread and tapelock to fit any head-cost $5. Wood heads cost $6, iron heads...
...Lambeth Conference of 1888 declared: "The Church of Rome has always treated her Eastern sister wrongfully. She intrudes her bishops in the ancient dioceses, and keeps up a system of active proselytism. The Eastern Church is reasonably outraged by these proceedings, wholly contrary as they are to catholic principles; and it behooves us of the Anglican Communion to take care that we do not offend in like manner...
Swann's Courtesan, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...