Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a bill-of-fare, Dodie Smith has had very little dinner to cook; it all comes, ready to serve, in cans. But she has laid the table beautifully, with the bes, china, the oldest silver and the thinnest glass. And though she goes in pretty heavily for thick white cream sauce, she has favored sauce piquante also, even uses a drop or two of tabasco...
...houses in Brooklyn is the oldest museum of its kind in the world. Unlike most museums, it invites its patrons to handle its exhibits. It is stocked not with fossils or old masters but with jigsaw puzzles, stuffed birds, insects, rocks. Each day it swarms with 1,000 visitors, who come not to look but to work...
Died. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, 80, oldest member of the Danish royal house; of bronchial influenza; in Copenhagen. Before the World War five kings called Prince Valdemar uncle - those of England, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Russia. In 1887 he was offered the throne of Bulgaria, in 1913 that of Albania. He refused both...
Outmoded is the fashion here, but Harvard also was young once. Not within the memory of the present generation, of course, but the Oldest Inhabitant can tell you about a real winter disturbance, how some gay, young blades pulled the horses out of horse-cars shortly after the Depression...
...might attempt to do. In spite of its apparent disunity, the Church, alone among human institutions, stood for the universal brotherhood of man, the unity of the human race. To that far ideal the Church still kept its faith; on Christmas 1938 took courage once again from the oldest and dearest story it knew: "Lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child...