Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very awe which the massive dimensions of the pyramids inspired, would prove the undoing of their hopes of eternal rest. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the course of his wanderings, has left a vast legacy of the stories and superstitions current in his day. The tales regarding kings buried deep in the rock under the pyramids have been relegated with the tales of black magic and priestcraft to the confines of fiction. All have been considered too far fetched to be true. The truth of the statements with regard to Gizeh seems now in a fair way to become proven...
...Deep River...
...drama), The Big Parade (cinema). To them he entrusted the composition of this long awaited opera, for which Mr. Stallings will write the script and Mr. Harling the score. The scene will be in Louisiana; the time 1830; negro spirituals will be used as motifs; the title will be Deep River...
...weak. His thin, transparent hand moved through the sign of the cross with effort. He was certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...
...Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, a band of thoughtful men filed into the Forsyth Theatre in Atlanta, Ga. They were pious men; they had been to church that morning. Deep on their fronts engraven sat public care; in their eyes flickered determination. When all had reached their places, one arose and, assisted by a large chorus, caused the proscenium to reverberate with the swelling notes of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Sa-aints of the Lo-ord", with "Ro-ock of A-ages" and old-time hymns. The odor of sanctity had settled strongly upon that lay temple...