Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings, all different, they slipped upon his brittle digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They covered his waist with two girdles, from each of which hung a dagger, zestfully ornamented. They put the royal apron, inlaid with gold, around his pathetically bony legs. For his feet were golden sandals. A sheaf of gold tipped each toe and finger...
...those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle of a woman named Helen Pascal...
...hammer of solid gold, its haft of carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...
...Great Saint Bernard hospice, long the stalking ground of Upidee and other inlaid ghosts of romantic legend, is giving up its ancient and abivairous custom of giving free fool and stirred to every weary pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more...
...Thebes (Valley of the Kings) have been discontinued for the summer, but will be resumed next season by Howard Carter, American collaborator of the late Lord Carnarvon. The treasures found in TutankhAmen's tomb (including the throne, chairs, alabaster vases, shrines, caskets, bedsteads, and boxes elaborately carved of inlaid ivory, ebony and gold) have been removed to Cairo by a 500-mile boat trip, and will be exhibited in the museum there under the Egyptian Department of Antiquities until a decision is reached regarding those to be brought to England and America...