Word: pompeii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns only on All Souls' Day. Antonio Ajello once estimated it will last 1,800 years...
...secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than in the U. S. During the Revolution everyone of importance from George Washington to Lafayette belonged to them. Some subsequent samples: Daughters of the Prairie of the Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World, Get There America Benefit Association, Prudent Patricians of Pompeii of the U. S. of America, Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen, Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers...
...Bourbon jewelry, could make no estimate of the gems' value, only commented: "I do know I made enough out of the trip to buy a $50,000 collection of rare locks and keys. One of them, incidentally, is probably the oldest in the world. It was found in Pompeii and dates back...
...small independent "bankers." Setting up temporary headquarters one evening^ in upper Riverside Drive's historic, city-owned Claremont Inn, now closed for the winter, Mr. Dewey sent 70 detectives swarming over Harlem after the city's biggest known policy ring, run by two West Indian Negroes named Pompeii and Ison. Bankers, slip girls, runners, collectors were carted to the Inn for examination in a nightlong stream. By morning 70 of them, including Ison but not Pompeii, were in hand, plus the ring's "take" for the previous...
Based on reliefs, wall paintings, and actual masks found in Pompeii and other ancient cities, these masks are humorous exaggerations, of types found as much today as in ancient Rome; the prodigal son, the stern father, the money-lender, and the clever and stupid slaves...