Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Levands found in Wichita a stage admirably set for their talents by the ancient bitterness between Senator Allen's Beacon (an evening paper) and the morning Eagle published by the brothers Victor and Marcellus Murdock. For years the Brothers Murdock had eyed the profitable afternoon field. On March 28, 1927 they sprung a surprise. An Evening Eagle, with bigger headines, blacker type and more pictures than Wichita had ever seen, burst upon the city unan- nounced. A crew of newsmen had been housed in a hotel where the first issue was prepared in dead secrecy...
...this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed Liberal. Up to this present election they have voted for Mr. King not because they are Liberal at heart (for French-Canadian farmers are as conservative as French peasants), but simply as a rebuke to the Conservatives, hated imposers of conscription. In this year...
...week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient's skin. Quickly she recovered...
...Manhattan last week. The late General Horace Porter of Civil War fame, onetime secretary to President U. S. Grant, had built it into his Victorian brownstone house at No. 277 Madison Avenue. His purpose remains obscure. When World Housewreckers opened the vault, it contained only an ancient artillery shell. Whatever the General's purpose, he did his work well. The house came down "nice and easy," but the vault required an arduous siege.* Said Foreman Jacob Camen: "We've been gnawing at it for three days now with pneumatic drills and acetylene torches and so far haven't made much...
...orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies of the city were indignant. Before that, they said, she had paraded an adopted baby...