Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courtyard began to sense that the bitter, three-week fight of crippled Chancellor Snowden to get for Britain a larger slice of the German Reparations "spongecake" (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.) was all but won. From midnight on the Continental powers steadily though stubbornly yielded. Soon after the ancient Binnenhof clock clanged one it was known that Mr. Snowden had received and accepted an offer satisfying 82% of his demands. After a month of false rumors of agreement correspondents would believe the welcome truth only if uttered by drawn-faced, cripple Snowden himself. As he passed through the gates...
...those who thought the brutal, ancient German university custom of dueling had died there came a shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
Rarely used are these ancient and musty Federal statutes because most murders occur within the jurisdiction of a State, most murderers are executed by the people of a State. But last week under them 120,000,000 people-everybody in the U. S.-joined together in their might and majesty and put to death a Federal murderer near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It was grim business. On Aug. 7, 1927, James Horace Alderman, fond of being called "King of the Rum Runners," was navigating his liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard...
...through the Holy City, razed the Temple. Another scene was in 70 A. D. when the Roman Titus and his grizzled legionaries forced their way inch by inch to the heart of Jerusalem, burned the Second Temple. Slowly the Jewish officer walked by the wall, only remnant of the ancient Temple, reflecting on the sad history of his race...
...famed Anthracite Choral Society of 172 mixed voices from Scranton, Pa. Two girls went all the way from California with their grandmother, aged 74. Others journeyed from Australia. They were welcomed by their most distinguished countryman, David Lloyd George. Then rose the president. In Welsh he cried the ancient ritualistic question: "Is there peace?" The voices thundered: "Peace...