Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the King-Emperor and the Realmleader entered the first of a procession of State victorias. Into the others piled Italian and German statesmen and officers. Then off all clattered, escorted by mounted cuirassiers of the ancient House of Savoy in gleaming breastplates...
...station at which he arrived was especially built outside the walls of Rome, connected up with the Eternal City by the brand new Viale Adolfo Hitler. This stately avenue and the Via Dell'Impero led the King-Emperor and Realmleader past several of the most interesting relics of ancient Rome, all floodlighted- for Il Duce had stagemanaged that the Führer should drive past at 8:30 p. m. Soon the German Dictator sat up as though startled and amazed by the vast Roman Colosseum which seemed to be afire, glowing within by the light of thousands...
...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
...gladly to rehearse in detail the history of 2,500 years and more. Littoria is a stretch of land 15 mi. wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci...
...impressive illustration of the effectiveness of co-operative effort and sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America to be a denial of the right of Indians to enter into an appreciation of their Christian heritage, implicit in their status as American citizens...