Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...
...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...
...heterogeneous collection of other articles covered the floor of the chamber. One great golden basin was prominent...
Apparently the chamber was originally filled with wooden furniture. The 59 centuries which Professor Flinders Petrie believes to have past since the sealing of the tomb have caused the wood to fall into dust leaving only the golden brackets and ivory inlay intact...
Easter, the solemnization of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the most important date of the Christian calendar. It begins the ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited...