Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to legend in Lebanon, long ago a defeated army was driven into a cave in the valley of Antelias and walled up to die of starvation. The man who breaks into the cave, says the legend, will find whitened skeletons like the valley full of dry bones that the Lord showed the Prophet Ezekiel...
...centuries, native treasure hunters have searched for that cave, reasoning that the walled-up soldiers must have carried valuable loot. One of the searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...
...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
...wife's sewing, chipped teacups; dirty spoons, knives and forks; lamps, an inkwell, glasses, clay pipes, tobacco ash; in a word, it is the most indescribable muddle. . . . One's eyes are so blinded by coal and tobacco smoke that it is like walking around in a cave until one becomes accustomed to it and objects begin to loom up through the fog. . . . Sitting down is a dangerous business. One of the chairs has only three legs; and the children are playing at cooking on another one which happens to be whole, and which they offer to the guest...
...Visiting Lady. Dear to South African diggers are colored cave drawings, some made by modern Bushmen, some (perhaps) very old. French Digger Abbé Henri Breuil favors the "very old" theory. In the Drakensberg mountains he found drawings of men who were certainly not Bushmen. They wore long cloaks with triangular markings and serrated bottom edges. On their shoulders they carried quivers. After studying them for a while, the romantic abbé decided that they might be ancient Sumerians who wandered down to South Africa thousands of years ago and posed for indigenous portrait painters...