Word: golds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great sledge. The sledge was covered with a pall of silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian...
...covers came loose and revealed standing upright, inside each jar a small sarcophagus, the elaborate golden miniature of the great gold case that held the king's mummy. The little coffins, within the Canopic jars, within the alabaster box on its sledge, within the long-sealed tomb suggested a great Chinese nest of boxes, one cunningly held within the other...
Next to his neck A. F. Sims of Wichita, Kans., wore the same gold collar button for 33 years. Last week he died, after willing the button to his father...
Advertisement for autocars: a large skinny horse, sculptured as he stumbles slowly along a road; surmounted by the figure of a man carrying a banner on which, in gold lettering, is traced the name of a brand of automobile...
...pursued beyond the door the brazen prowler merely transferred his activities to the North Entry where he continued to loot the wealth of the Gold Coast, leaving at about 5 o'clock in the morning. Hours later walling and gnashing teeth resulted from an inventory of student stock and the "goodies" worked late into the day carrying out the torn hair of those who had to cancel all weekend festivities due to financial embarrassment...