Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, faces have come and gone, but the club itself has remained much the same: its air of worn brown leather, almost unused elevator, ancient chandeliers, cluttered rooms, classic busts and beery mugs, walls crowded with faded photographs and playbills-an "old uncle of a house," as Booth Tarkington described it. Still kept just as he left it- except that the bedsheets are said to be changed occasionally-is the room where Booth lived & died. In tall wall-safes lie carefully preserved costumes and relics of Booth and other actors...
First of these was the ancient Silk Road, running 2,000 miles from Sian through Sinkiang (once part of China proper but now almost completely under Soviet dominance) to the Russian centres of Alma Ata and Sergiopol, on Russia's new Turk-Sib railroad. Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court...
...most calculations, Christ was born in 5 B. C. There is no evidence that the date was December 25. As Christmas evolved in early Christian times, it was strongly influenced by the more ancient Roman winter feast of Saturnalia...
...bright, cheerful expressions of the nurses at Stillman Infirmary are perhaps the only feature of the current rule at the Hygiene Department on which your newspaper has not to my knowledge glowingly commented. There was a day, under the ancient regime, when a smile from Stillman nurse was rare as a hen's tooth, but happily those times are past...
...James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals, burst their argument's bubble. He pointed out that dogs have become the most domesticated and civilized of animals; that unless man teaches them the tricks they seldom revert to their ancient habits in the country or out; that since dogs receive better care and more attention in the city, it is a better place for them to live...