Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient Syrian city of Antioch last week a batch of League of Nations observers huddled on their hotel balcony while the street directly before them echoed with pistol shots, wild Turkish and Syrian yells, the thud of brickbats, groans. When police finally cleared the cobbled street, one slippered rioter was dead, eight others gravely injured...
...plumes. Eight coal-black horses drew them and behind came four horses drawing the coach of widowed Queen Wilhelmina with whom rode the widowed German mother of the bridegroom, discreetly sporty Princess Armgard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (cigarets, fast cars and cocktails in moderation). Lined up outside the ancient Great Church were 60 apple-cheeked college classmates of Her Royal Highness, a double line of cadets from The Netherlands Indies in grim trench helmets, a single line of Royal Navy Cadets in parade dress and "100,000 Dutch girls," thousands in national finery-not the everyday Dutch peasant bonnet...
...naked before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less than three months the Pope and his ancient valet Giovanni Malvestiti kept secret his varicose veins, treating them with "home remedies...
...Eternal Road begins in the depths of an ancient musty synagogue, somewhere in central Europe, some time in the Dark Ages. A terrified congregation has fled there for protection from their Aryan neighbors. To comfort and strengthen them the rabbi and his elders bring out the Scroll of the Law from the Ark and begin singing the history of their melodramatic race...
...Pennies From Heaven," on the other hand, is about as thoroughly insipid a bit of sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tear-stained child named Edith Fellows...