Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangsters listed by Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce,* as the city's greatest Public Enemies. On the strength of this list, the September grand jury, under the foremanship of Vice President Gabriel Flournoy Slaughter of American Steel Foundries, had resurrected an ancient vagrancy law. Judge John H. Lyle then issued vagrancy warrants for the arrest thereunder of notorious gangsters...
...Diplarakos, 18-year-old Greek brunette who went to Brazil's International Beauty Contest at Rio de Janeiro fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 22) as "Miss Europe" and came away as runner-up to "Miss Universe," arrived in the U. S., made known her intention of giving lectures on ancient and modern Greek culture. Unusual among beauty-winners, she is intelligent, speaks (besides Greek) Eng lish, French, Italian, has no desire for stage or cinema fame. To newshawks she explained how she became Miss Europe: "My mother, some friends and I were at tea one day last year...
...revival of an ancient and outworn custom had been a motive, the same result might have been reached without a dais by lengthening the chair and table legs a couple of inches, and wearing pattens. In such case, the CRIMSON's strictures would have been justified, and the suspicion that Harvard democracy consists chiefly in affability toward properly accredited persons...
...Royal, Ancient Gamble. Within 48 hours, the 48 accused had been tried as "irreconcilable enemies of the Soviet State," found guilty, shot. Usually such executions are announced in tiny type on inside pages of Soviet papers. But last week the Government ordered big black headlines, first-page position. So breathlessly fast did events move, so blatantly sincere and joyous seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant...
Albert Duke of York, "playing in" as Royal & Ancient golf captain at St. Andrews, Scotland, made a creditable first drive of 200 yds. (Eight years ago his brother Edward of Wales all but whiffed his presidential drive.) Next day York played for fun, was interrupted first by a nursemaid leisurely pushing a perambulator across his course, then by the town dustman trundling his cart...