Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...
Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...
...peculiar ceremony, in the time of the English king Henry VIII, the marriage party of a nobleman walked in a bizarre parade headed by representations of the ancient gods Diana and Mercury, and by ten cupids, five of them white and five negro...
BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON - Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Peter and Harriet (Gaudy Night, TIME, Feb. 24, 1936) spend their honeymoon in an ancient English farmhouse and discover smoking fireplaces, eccentric neighbors, cold-blooded murder and-a greater understanding...
...doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast, and on top of both was placed a large bell jar, like the dome of Grant's tomb. This not without blood-curdling howls, and scratches, and a beady look of the eye as sour as the Ancient Mariner's as the beast passed...