Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President." Digging him at last, Aunt Janie inquired: "Of what?" "Of the U.S.," shouted Wilson. "Don't be silly!" snapped Aunt Janie, indignantly dismissing him from her presence...
...Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world's oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for guidance by Coptic leaders in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Libya was chosen, according to ancient custom, by lot. In Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark, a seven-year-old boy approached an envelope lying on the altar. Amid prayers, he opened the envelope and drew from it one of three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate for the office of "Most Holy Father...
...modern adherents preserve the ancient Coptic language in their ritual, proudly point to the art and architecture of their monasteries and churches and to their long line of theologians and ascetics. To that line belongs the new 56-year-old Patriarch, who spent five years in the desert as a solitary monk, then, in 1936, rented an abandoned mill in Cairo (for 3? a month), fitted it with a homemade altar and started preaching. His reputation as a holy man grew, and eventually the faithful built him a small church...
Points of View, by W. Somerset Maugham. Five civilized conversational essays, another "absolutely last" book by the Old Party, in the engaging tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
...independent state, then of empire. Choosing a moment when Rome's legions were preoccupied in Africa and in Gaul, Mithradates built a fleet, gathered an army, and in ten years swept from the northern shore of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the fringe of ancient Greece. Naturally enough, the conqueror was indignant when his wife-and-sister, the queen, tried to poison him. Mithradates, who had foresightedly taken small daily doses of poison to build up an immunity, executed her without delay and, for the remainder of his long life, stuck conscientiously to concubines...