Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enamored of the lady who lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches are twisted and two ancient steeds-Annie and Katie-gallop to a conflagration on a treadmill. The spectacle of funny, plump Victor Frederick Moore (Princess Charming, Hold Everything) in a fire chief's hat is worth the price of admission...
...even the erudite and philosophically-minded race of Vagabonds are susceptible to the same bodily ills as their more mundane brethren. And you can take the Vagabond's word for it; there are better heated apartments in Cambridge than the draughty towers of Memorial Hall. Though true to his ancient abode, at times he things with envy in his heart of the steam heated warmth of the new Houses. But then, what is corporeal comfort, compared with intellectual solitude in the high places...
...first radio speech of the Pope shows how far this original Christian sect has advanced in three hundred years. The central point of the address is peace among individuals and nations. For final proof he uses the most ancient of Christian documents, but makes no distinctions between the different denominations and directs his speech toward the objective which governments have failed so dismally to attain...
Last week despatches from Rome told of another use for the divining rod. Maria Mataloni of Lepringnano startled savants several months ago by finding a Roman tomb with her divining rod near Capena, ruined ancient Etruscan town. Last week she was taken to Pompeii by Professor Amedeo Maiuri of Naples Museum, located several places in the buried city where, she said, were hidden gold, silver, bronze...
French thesis: the majority of French War bonds are held by Frenchmen who have quietly taken their loss, let the British minority holders take their loss as quietly, make good the ancient boast that "Englishmen are better sportsmen than Frenchmen...