Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist, Spanish Fascists, coming to the assistance of the Italians, and the Moors, always a little uncertain whom they were fighting and for what, joined in the fight in Toledo's ancient bull ring...
...live in a new world,' he said. 'St. Bernards are killing little girls. Books, or what pass for books, are being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw their umbrage on the imponderable dead. The branches of these trees, my dear young man, are alive with loudspeakers. I believe Upper Montclair is the place. That is one reason for my departure-I have certain macabre pilgrimages to make, while the lustiness is still in my bones...
...Board of City Trusts went about its business so quietly most Philadelphians hardly knew it existed until rambunctious Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, who likes to poke his nose into odd places, started talking about it when he took office early last year. By last week the affairs of the ancient & honorable board were making a resounding racket in Philadelphia's narrow streets and connected with the noise were two other ancient Philadelphia institutions-an equally old department store and a venerable firm of attorneys...
Dragged to the stand to revive an even more ancient scandal was Dr. Henry Franklin Cutler, Elliott Speer's 75-year-old predecessor. During Dr. Cutler's regime Cashier Norton was on such precarious terms with Dean Elder that he bored a hole in his office wall to spy on the dean and his red-haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully...
...Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble. To protect passersby, Academy President Alfred G. B. Steel last week had scaffolding put up around her and asked the advice of sculptors...