Word: anciently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bull rings have seen lady bullfighters before, but none like Conchita. Not only is she an expert matadora-her capework equal to that of many a top-notch matador-but she is a rejoneadora (equestrienne bullfighter) as well. Earlier in the afternoon, she had given an exhibition of this ancient style of bullfighting (now seldom seen professionally except in Portugal), in which horse & rider maneuver as one, make passes at the bull and elude his charges, until they get him in position for the final thrust...
Conchita was a problem child, demonstrated quite early that she was no sit-by-the-fire. When she was five years old, she unearthed some ancient skulls, put them on sticks and frightened the servants by poking them through the windows. Once, during a Peruvian uprising, she disappeared from home, was found sitting on a curbstone 100 feet from the scene of a bloody battle. When she was eight, she rode out into the desert alone, required a posse to find...
...with an indignant letter to the newspapers quoting the learned Earl's views on adultery (TIME, March 11). Soon echoes of Bishop Manning's indignation gonged around Manhattan pulpits, and the Hearst press charged that Earl Russell was 1) irreligious, 2) immoral, 3) radical, 4) alien. The Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Catholic Daughters of America, the Lutheran Society, Inc., the Metropolitan Baptist Ministers Conference, all passed hot resolutions. Last week the Roman Catholic Church went on record. Before 6,000 policemen at a Communion breakfast, a speaker cried: "As [policemen] you have learned the full meaning...
They formed it, at Delmonico's, as a supper club. Its early days were bumpy, but it grew & grew, to become the most ancient, most active, most ardent of U. S. stage societies. Today it has 1,100 members, over 80% of them theatre people, has a smoke-filled, untidy, hospitable clubhouse just off Times Square...
...Commencement is our most ancient...