Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last the frantically honking chauffeur was able to get the ancient taxi started and it wheezed slowly off amid a white shower of flowers. Soon it clattered to a stop at the modest residence of Mme. Alphonse Daudet, widow of the great novelist whose Letters from My Mill have delighted millions. On the doorstep mother clasped son -the son who keeps up an indomitable fight for monarchy as editor of the newspaper L' Action Française. To the paper's masthead is nailed a stirring line pledging the paper to support the Due de Guise, heritier...
Moscow children under 16 were forbidden, last week, to attend the ancient Douglas Fairbanks cinema Don Q, Son of Zorro "to protect their immature minds from the contamination of its bourgeois ideology...
...19th Century, after countless years of elaboration, the craft of the carriage maker had attained near-perfection. Then the automobile appeared on the vehicular horizon. In the early years of automobile manufacture the traditions of the ancient carriage craft were continued. The first automobile engine was mounted on a buggy chassis. The new vehicle was popularly associated with its predecessor and nicknamed the "horseless carriage" and "gasoline buggy." Ex-carriage makers became automobile body designers. Early cars were frequently entered from the rear (dog cart), equipped with horsewhip stands, often painted black and usually festooned with fringe, beautified with brass...
Fortnight ago in London, in accordance with ancient custom, Westminster School (St. Peter's College) boys produced Terence's Phormio (The Parasite). The hoary College Dormitory, designed by famed Sir Christopher Wren, has housed similar productions each year since 1729. Older than the Westminster tradition of struggling for a tossed pancake on Shrove Tuesday is the annual presentation of a Latin play. It is also customary for the year's bright scholars to write a prolog and epilog and last fortnight the London Times bowed to custom by reproducing these learned appendages fully-four fat columns...
Making a classic analogy of the Harvard student's attitude with that of the ancient Greek. Dr. Lowell stated that his university's object was "the cultivation of physical excellence in young men." This policy supersedes the interest in their collegiate teams, he feels. Such a principle is in direct contrast to the Romans' ideas, for their main interest was in seeing the chosen few display their prowess, and not in athletics of any sort for the multitude. With these Romans Dr. Lowell compares the huge crowds which throng stadiums in the fall, and who give to athletic contests...