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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reformation sect founded circa 1170 by the followers of Peter Waldo, Lyonese merchant who gave away his wealth to the poor, taught voluntary poverty...
...king's chariot, drawn by two asses. Grooms held the reins; another flunky was in attendance. Gaming boards with dice, copper bowls, tumblers, and other diversions awaited His Majesty. But he was nowhere to be seen. It did not matter for all these people had been dead since circa 3500 B. C. Their flesh and the wood of the harp and of the chariot had long ago rotted into nothingness. Only the bones, the metal strings, the trinkets, the jewels were recently found by scientific diggers in Mesopotamia...
Baron Nicholas Wrangel, aged father of famed General Baron Wrangel who still holds together a "White Russian" army in Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27), has just published most illuminating, if somewhat bloodcurdling memoirs.* He proceeds from his childhood (circa 1855) when a neighboring Count Visapur went unrestrained although he used to decorate his garden with pedestals on which stood all day statues improvised out of living serfs, stripped and painted white. In that era, Baron Wrangel's Aunt Jeanne would say, if anyone asked her the time, "Thank God, I have never been compelled to learn that!" and would display...
...this time, too, gout appeared, as shown by uric acid deposits in joints, and by swollen great toes and knees. Cancer appeared first a century or two before Christ. But tuberculosis appeared in the Fifth Dynasty (27th Century, B. C.) This mummy's spine was affected. Ramses V (circa, 11th Century, B. C.) had smallpox. Mummies packed away 6,000 years ago had gallstones. Gravel in the kidneys first appeared 5,000 years ago, and pelvic abscesses became a frequent affliction 30 centuries back...
...convention years ago. He was maledicting radicals, William Z. Foster in particular. Typically of the U. S. labor movement, great-faced Mr. Lewis can talk better against radicals than he can for or against anything else. Since Bolshevism first entered the limited vocabulary of the average citizens (circa 1919), there has never been a convention of organized labor in which it was not denounced. Better that a U. S. labor leader should have his face covered with mud than that "Bolshevist" should be tagged on to his coattail...