Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith to the background can find no place it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such ordering and retains its ancient faith...
...Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...
...down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...
...into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...