Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli's formula had been scribbled. The Le Grand family promptly began making Elixir again and now it is a world-wide favorite under the name Benedictine...
Gerald L. K. Smith, whom H. L. Mencken once called the "master of masters of all epics, ancient or modern, and Aristotle, Johann Sebastain Bach, and all orators, dead or alive," will address the Young Conservatives on March...
...vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many of his fellow party members, he was glad enough to give the land...
Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...
Woven into its simple narrative were speculations about the ancient world that gave readers a more immediate sense of what it was like than most volumes of historical inquiry. Why, asked the novelist, did stories like this one of Joseph echo from generation to generation? He answered: "Very deep is the well of the past." Recorded history, he said, goes only a little way into that well. Deeper lie myths, folk tales, legends-"pious abbreviations" of real happenings. Time wore them down to bare narratives which later generations preserved partly through tradition, partly because men found similar patterns in their...