Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession steamed out to the reviewing grounds. In the van rode Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the little steamer Patricia. Not as a Prime Minister but as an Elder Brother of Trinity House, he wore a uniform very much like that of a British admiral. Trinity House is the ancient organization still responsible for British lighthouses and pilotage. At all royal naval reviews the Elder Brethren's yacht has the right to pilot the royal yacht down the line...
...doing some reading among ancient Irish legends a few years ago I found evidence of a much more ambitious lake-dweller. Two thousand or more men did she kill in a single day, it was claimed, the victims being members of the great Irish warrior band called the Fiana. This having a crippling effect on the ranks, their captain delegated the son of the King of Greece, who understood the language of all monsters, to make a bargain with her. For 50 horses or 50 cows a day she agreed to leave the Fiana in peace...
...regalia, was being carried by the elderly Marquess of Salisbury, Lord High Steward of England; that among the nine pages supporting the King's robe were three young sons of World War heroes, inheritors of their titles: Earl Haig, Earl Jellicoe, Earl Kitchener; that because of an ancient squabble over precedent, the King's golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right...
...Westminster? Westminster Abbey is not a Cathedral. It is just what its name implies, an Abbey church, the oldest and finest in ancient London, built on the site of a Roman temple of Apollo. Britain's kings have always been crowned there because it was the church of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror. London's Cathedral is the many times larger St. Paul's on the crest of Ludgate Hill. Here such state ceremonies as the Thanksgiving after the Armistice and the Jubilees are always performed. The former Dean of St. Paul's, "Gloomy...
...lowly matters of government. A revival of learning in the eighteenth century and contact with the western world revealed their true condition to the Japanese people. In 1867 the last Shogun retired and restored the Emperor to his full power. In 1868 a new Emperor ascended, in 1871 the ancient Feudalism was abolished...