Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ontario, last week forbade the further use of roller towels in all business and public lavatories; of powder puffs and sponges in all barbershops; of wooden bedsteads in public lodging houses of the Province. Reasons, well known to U. S. dwellers among whom such hygienic measures now seem almost antediluvian: germs teem on public towels, puffs and sponges; bedbugs nest in the joints of wooden bedsteads, in the crevices of their peeling veneer, in their "antique" wormholes...
With William Beebe flashing romantic reports of the Sargasso Sea and Galapagos, and Roy Chapman Andrews cabling accounts of antediluvian exhumations in Mongolia, the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased...
...Freshmen, and have showered us continually with brickbats of advice, I feel that several opportunities have been neglected. Not that I want to criticize: as yet I have felt no ill effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet...
...successive days two dispatches have come from New Haven which throw some light on the nature of Yale's antediluvian problem. The first records a statement by Dean Brown of the Theological School, to the effect that compulsory chapel has justified itself by its results. He says that a careful survey of all the preachers listed in Who's Who reveals that most of them attended college where chapel attendance was compulsory...
...cork game "took"; a company of cork-droppers formed. In 1868 the Cockney, Charles A. Vivian, presided over a meeting of "The Jolly 'Corks," now determined to organize a benevolent and protective society. What to call it ? Vivian remembered in England "The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos," but his comrades favored "Elks" when they discovered that animal described as "fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female...