Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excellency the President of Poland, Ignatz Moscicki, received last week a request. Meeting at Cracow, ancient seat of the Kings of Poland, some 20,000 Poles had signed the request. They included 160 Deputies representing six Parliamentary parties and 5,000,000 ballots...
Westminster Abbey belongs to the Empire (even to the world because of its "poets' corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street...
Then came the most important part of the ceremony. Clutching the ancient key in his black-cotton-gloved hand, Archbishop Söderblom walked to the edge of the nearby lake, stepped gingerly in the stern-sheets of the very small rowboat and sat down next to Count Magnus' nephew, Baron Friedrich von Essen (no Brahe, but heir to the Brahe estates). The silk-hatted, saturnine Majordomo of Castle Skokloster took the oars. While Sweden's King watched from the shore, Bishop, Baron and Majordomo rowed to the middle of the lake and plop went...
...More ancient Scandinavians would have laid the dead noble, with his arms and funeral trappings, upon a funeral barge which then would have been fired, set adrift...
...RETURN OF THE HERO-Darrell Figgis-Boni (50c). Famed among Ireland's ancient heroes is Oisin (pronounced "Usheen"), son of Finn. Finn's followers, the Fianna, were to Ireland what Arthur's knights were to England, and like them ended in a disastrous battle. After the fight at Gabhra, Oisin was carried away to the land of eternal youth. Although he liked it there he was wishful to see again his beloved Ireland, find out the survivors of the Fianna. But he had been away 200 years. The pagan Ireland Oisin had known was gone. Padraic...