Word: maing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will quit her razz-ma'tazzle, her sneakin' jizzle-jazzle...
This noble and historic character was brought up at the Roman court ma manner befitting her royal parentage and became the wife of Juba II, King of Mauritania She appears to have been a worthy mate to th remarkable man, who was the great patron of Arts and Letters and one of the most celebrated geographers of antiquity. The classics are full of allusions...
...Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy: "We may well contrast this absolute freedom in our distribution [export] of raw ma- terials with discriminatory systems practiced by some other countries." (See BUSINESS: "Caoutchouc") He touched lightly on fickle female fashions. He gave no hope of higher tariff on cotton goods next December...
...Reisner of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...
...Before sealing the new tomb discovered at Giza by the Harvard-Boston Expedition, the inscription on the gold mat was clearly read as follows: 'Lord-of-two-crowns Sneferuw, the Horus Neb-Ma'at.' The name of the person buried in the coffin remains unknown. The presence of the name of Sneferuw on the mat does not prove that this king was buried in the tomb, but only that the burial was made in his reign. The conclusion that the tomb is not that of Sneferuw or Cheops is not affected by the new evidence...