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...soon evident that the hole was cut in one of the upper corners of a chamber of almost unparallelled size. The long yellow shafts of the lights could hardly penetrate the dark to the bottom. Only the glint of gold could be distinguished. A sort of "plank" could be made out across the top of sarcophagus. On the plank was inscribed in golden hieroglyphics, the name "Sneferu...
...glint of crystalline rocks . . . the splashing waterfalls . . . the lakes...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "In a letter to the Brooklyn Teachers' Association I advocated an Alaskan-California-Canadian Rockies tour by Brooklyn teachers. Said I: 'The glint of crystalline rocks . . . the indescribable beauty . . . the splashing waterfalls, the lakes . . . and the nestling homes in the crotches of tree limbs of our feathered friends restore to the wanderer that sense of possession of the instinctive heritage of all mankind. . . 'Summer or winter, day or night The woods are an ever new delight...
...Remus' Br'er Rabbit and her chief. It was the play of wits between Br'er Rabbit and the enemies that sought to corner him that made the secretary think of the mental adroitness of Samuel Gompers in a similar situation. She found the rabbit "human looking, with a glint of knowingness in his eye, an all-pervading air of goodwill, an absence of bitterness in his make-up." So she purchased the cotton rabbit and presented it to Mr. Gompers. And " Br'er " has sat ever since as mascot on the labor leader's desk, has accompanied...
...glint the rigs o' corn...