Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History's magnificent madman, Alexander of Macedonia, some 2253 years ago engaged in a classically long and hard drinking bout. After many days the quantity of iced, fermented honey that passed down his gullet weakened him, killed him. Expiring in Babylon, a stopping-off point on his insane meandering path about the earth, he left no trace of his tomb...
...chief virtue of the Harvard tradition that no first year project shall bring money to the pockets of those involved in it is that it keeps Freshman activities from being exploited. Any step which tends to start the first year classes on the path which leads to the ultimate goal of doing the job for monetary reward, even if the reward but provides a dinner, should be avoided. Freshman committees may strive to give their class creditable Red Books and dances, but dinners at the Ritz should be deleted from the program of the Harvard social lion-cubs...
...congestion at Tunis and Carthage and in between was snarled. Senegalese troops, big, black upstanding men, assisted frantic local police in trying to direct the streams of vehicles and pedestrians. The Senegalese method was simple. They would club sufficient people to earth so that others could trample through the path. Even Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier, Papal legate to the Congress, conspicuous in red robes, had difficulty in getting about. The Senegalese would not let him proceed to the ruins of Carthage's amphitheatre, where centuries ago the Romans after they had rebuilt Carthage fed communistic Christians to lions had them...
There are many today who would fill the place with patriotic dullness; John Masefield can, it is to be hoped, pluck the lyre of the Empire with greater else than some of his predecessors. The late Robert Bridges often refused to sing; may his successor follow the same path. There are more things for a Laureate to do than merely to chirp either at the royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet...
...were attached to the British army and were stationed between Dannes and Camiers, France, directly in the path of the German guns that were bombing France at the time...