Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abie's Irish Rose-The oldest...
...superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...
...subtle touch of genius into her husband's speeches. When he was tired she addressed his thou sands of campaign letters; when he was glum she cheered him. "Old Bob" died. His wife was left with his spirit, his political faith, his four children. The oldest, Robert M. Jr., went into the Senate. He has his father's chubby face; he serves with insurgent distinction, a mere child (age 30) among Senators. Son Philip, 29, is District Attorney in his home county. He has his father's shock of hair; he is a fiery orator. Last month...
Arrow-swift, a darting racing car swept over the Etruscan Appennines last week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood...
...march anywhere when Manhattan was suffering a July subway strike. But in the South they have not such formal ideas about who is entitled to do what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia...