Word: ankh
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...
...Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...Lord Carnarvon's in importance was that of the tomb of the father and mother of King Ti by Mr. Theodore Davis," continued Professor Chase. "This tomb had been entered before but a good deal of material had been left by the robbers. Previous to the excavation of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb, the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian glory was restricted to what could be gleaned from the few records and remains left in the already ransacked tombs. Now Lord Carnarvon has given the world a record as complete as the whole contents of a king's tomb...
...which will appear in full in the next Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Meroe is in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, not very far from Khartum. It is over six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb was recently made...
...temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...