Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century, and they were defined last week in solemn ceremony for the man who would leave the conclave as the 262nd Pontiff. At a Mass in St. Peter's before the cardinals retired into their sealed-off quarters, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, Secretary of Briefs to the Princes (an ancient office in the papal household), told them in finely chiseled Latin what sort of man they must choose...
...From the Greek archi and iatros, or "first physician," a title given to court physicians by both the ancient Greeks and Romans...
...should not paint or carve anything but such as can be seen with the eye; so that God's majesty which is too exalted for human sight may not be corrupted by fantasies which have no true agreement therewith." All of which is the puritanical way of expressing the ancient adage, "I know nothing about art but I know what I like...
...flighty wife named Dora, and her Prussianesque art-scholar husband. In a series of plot maneuvers as complicated as a gavotte, Author Murdoch sees to it that the insiders and the outsiders mix, mate and mangle each other. A lengthy subplot centers on the discovery and raising of the ancient abbey bell, legendarily consigned to the bottom of the lake as a result of a curse on an errant nun. The bell, of course, is a symbol for that clear-ringing innocence of which the colonists are self-deprived...
...grandfather's Belvoir Castle. The plumbing there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. (She was always shown to visitors...