Word: amethyste
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...Herbert Eustis Winlock had ordered X-rays made of the Metropolitan's mummy collection. The plates showed that inside its wrappings the mummy of Wah was wearing a necklace of spherical beads, apparently gold or silver; another necklace of larger beads, apparently of silver; a third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently of stone, and an oval seal ring. Unwrapping a mummy without destroying it is ticklish business, but Director Winlock plans...
...Gryce. Called the world's foremost detective story writer by Stanley Baldwin, Miss Green was a friend of such addicts as Presidents Roosevelt I and Wilson, Lord Bryce. William Maxwell Evarts. Other books: That Affair Next Door, The Sword of Damocles, The Circular Study, The Filigree Ball, The Amethyst...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits...
...lump of fused quartz, clear as water, turned purple; a lump of feldspar glowed blue, amber, ruby, amethyst, with patches of brilliant green, successively; a lump of limestone burned angry orange. After exposure to the rays, these minerals looked searing hot but were not. Their fluorescence was without rise in temperature and in some cases persisted for hours after the exposure (as displaced electrons worked slowly back to their places in the atoms). The application of heat and cold (liquid air) altered the speed and intensity of these effects. Diamonds were only temporarily affected by exposure...