Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story. Sadko, a singer who played on the gousla (ancient Russian handharp), was summoned to entertain banqueting merchants. Instead of praising them, his singing boasted of what he would do with their opportunities, so that they drove him into the streets. Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea. Instantly she loved Sadko for his song, told him that if he cast his net into the waters he would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded...
...September 1929, the Anti-Sweet campaign was succeeded by a series built around the line An Ancient Prejudice Has Been Removed. The ancient prejudice was the idea that cigarets were bad for the throat; the removal had been accomplished by Lucky Strike's special process -toasting. Recently and currently, however, Luckies have gone back to a more moderate treatment of the slenderness theme, but now are anti-fat rather than anti-sweet. Current Lucky advertisements, illustrated with pictures of single-chinned people throwing double-chinned shadows, urge readers to "Avoid That Future Shadow" by refraining from overindulgence. Copy says...
Grecian Main Street. In 160 A.D., Corinth, classic city, throve lustily. Pausanias was its Baedeker. He described a street running from the market place to the theatre. In 396 A.D., Alaric the Goth devastated the city. Ancient Corinth disappeared under tons of debris and earth. Little by little the old town is being unearthed. Theodore Leslie Shear, one of Princeton's archaeologists, has returned to the U. S. after four years of digging there. He announced the discovery of the Pausanias-chronicled street, the theatre with seats...
Four lectures, planned primarily for undergraduates concentrating in ancient and modern literatures, are scheduled to be given on successive Wednesday afternoons in Emerson D beginning February 12. The addresses, which will begin at 4.30 o'clock, will discuss Homer, Horace, Cervantes, and Moliere. They will be given by Professors C. N. Jackson '98, C. R. Moore '89, J. D. M. Ford '94, and C. H. C. Wright...
...Perdriat has been a painter for seven years. Before that she grew up in the ancient waterfront town of La Rochelle where the talk of sailors, returned from the tropics, filled her mind with interior horizons of palms and soapy waves and yellow beaches unlike all the beaches she had ever seen. At 20, she went to Paris with an idea of writing. She fell in love with a young man who died of consumption. When she, in the proper tradition of such romance, had fallen consequently ill herself, she felt, for the first time in her life, the need...