Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...
There is a recurrent journalistic fable that grains of wheat taken from ancient Egyptian tombs have grown into new wheat plants. Scientists take no stock in it. The maximum length of time in which wheat grains retain their germinating power is well established as about 25 years. In cases where people have made the experiment in good faith and obtained positive results, it is probable that they were bubbled by fakers who sold them modern wheat for ancient...
Colonel Thompson himself was in Egypt at the time that the tomb of TutankhAmen was opened and secured a promise from the Egyptian Government that he should have some wheat if any were found. But not a grain has been discovered. He obtained, however, 200 or 300 grains of pedigreed wheat from other tombs, averaging 3,000 years in age. A little of this was planted to make certainty of its infertility doubly sure. Under the most favorable conditions, it failed to sprout. Some of the wheat was ground to flour, however, and chemical tests made. Faint reactions were obtained...
...Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation, he is said to have cried "Meat!" The Graphic, he announced, "will conduct the greatest crossword puzzle contest ever inaugurated by a newspaper." The contest forthwith began. Prizes were announced to aggregate...
Professor Jean Capart, Director of the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium, will lecture on "Problems of Egyptian Esthetics" at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon...