Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Keys of Earth & Heaven crossed beneath the Papal Tiara was the device which adorned postage stamps of the Papal State up to 1870. Last week Protestant and Ku Klux postmen faced the possibility that they may have to deliver letters bearing such stamps, should a new series be issued by the newly reorganized Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18). In Rome last week the question "What about stamps?" drew this suave, disarming answer from Francesco, Prince Massimo...
Goddess of the Earth and of Wisdom is Erda in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Greatest of Erdas in her heyday was Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink. That the heyday has endured even unto her sixty-eighth year was proved last week when she sang the rôle again at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Up she came out of the earth in Rheingold, sang her warning to the gods with an untarnished skill and dignity that made her few minutes on stage the outstanding moment of the afternoon. Next day she issued a statement that "after...
...Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
Enigmatic Morgan. The foremost financier on this round Earth favored the Second Dawes Committee, last week, with an address lasting only a few seconds. At an early session of the Committee, when the other delegates each made succinct 10 minute speeches outlining the policies of their governments, Mr. Morgan rose, indicated his U. S. colleague Mr. Young, and said...
There were more great moments in Giants in the Earth, just as there was greater epic sweep. But Author Rölvaag continues a faithful contributor to Americana...