Word: druidical
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Subtle, processional monumentality, raved admirers. Instant Stonehenge, snapped critics of the proposed Franklin D. Roosevelt monument, eight huge slabs in a cluster, engraved with passages from F.D.R.'s speeches. Washington's Fine Arts Commission, which took the anti-druidic view in 1962, has now finally approved the design after some changes were made, including the addition of an 18-foot-tall statue of the President. But the memorial still didn't pass the last roundup. At a Hyde Park meeting, Anna Roosevelt Halstead, 58, James, 56, Elliott, 53, John, 48, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 49, unanimously...
...green), the bards met to honor this year's prizewinning poets with their wild applause and with Wales's most coveted trophies: the traditional silver crown and pulpit chair. Last week the applause rose even higher to honor royalty: pretty, bareheaded Princess Elizabeth, clad in a green Druidic robe...
...collection of Rodin's original drawings and casts, an assortment of Northwest Indian relics, gimcracks from the Mayflower, a 3,000-lb. dud artillery shell, said to be the first fired by the Germans in World War I, a complete reconstruction (in the surrounding grounds) of the Druidic monuments at Stonehenge, England...
...working 55-Service Troops and Death's Head Brigade-are not only entrusted with keeping German order but with producing a great race of supermen for puny Herr Himmler. 55 marriages-the bride's physical qualifications and racial background are thoroughly investigated-were once surrounded with Druidic ceremonies to impress the young couple with the ancient background of their Teutonic destiny. 55 colonies for young married couples are made attractive breeding grounds. Smart Herr Himmler has made his police service not only a service but a cult...
...Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their tunes in accompaniments when...