Word: ankh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic man had telephone connections with the adjacent caves or that Pharaoh toured his land in a horseless carriage...
...Shipping Bill, the English debt, and King Tut-Ankh-Amen, leave little room in the newspapers for our neighbor south of the Rio Grande. Mexico recently has passed its second year under the administration of President Alvaro Obregon, revolutionary successor of President Carranza, and impartial observers, with vivid recollections of Madera, Huerta, and Villa, are taking stock...
...strange color the thoughts and actions of men. Antony learned there the subtle, inexpressible charm of the East; Napoleon and his army stood in awe before its pyramids; Shelley drew a moral philosophy from a fallen "Ozymandias"; and the modern world stands at the newly-opened tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and finds therein another Renaissance...
...modeled upon Egyptian patterns. Scandal and murder have been driven from the front pages of the newspapers by the spell of Egyptology. Its influence on literature of a more lasting sort depends on the papyri yet hidden in the tomb; more details about the captivity of Israel--Tut-Ankh-Amen may have been the persecuting Pharaoh--and a new version of the Flood are among the discoveries anticipated. And the "Aten hereay" with Tut-Ankh-Amen as the religious hero, may open a literary field as stupendous as that of the Trojan...