Word: pharaohs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realization of what seemed to be a fool's dream has more than purely commercial significance. It is illustrative of the changed way in which men are projecting themselves down the years. The Pyramids insured the endurance of the dead pharaoh's name; the skyscrapers, tunnels and bridges of today are dedicated to the service of the people. But there are few more revealing ironies than that it is still the name of the man who pays that is perpetuated; only martyrdom to the work can make eligible the name of its creator...
Moon of Israel. Again the Red Sea makes way for the Israelites.! This time the miracle is incidental to a story based on Sir Rider Haggard's novel. This German film includes an episode in which the son of Pharaoh seeks out a slave girl as bride. It manages to be rather dull...
...prone to do in their mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians to deify a pharaoh, no Romans to worship an emperor...
...home. Andrew Jackson bristles into Boston. William Ellery Channing, founder of Unitarianism, preaches a sermon. John Quincy Adams and Josiah Quincy visit Joseph Smith, "the bourgeois Mohammed," at muddy Nauvpo, 111., being privileged to dispute with him in a strange dormitory and to view the prophet's dubious Pharaoh mummies and Mosaic manuscripts, (being told upon leaving, that it is customary to pay old Mother Smith $L25 for this honor...
...tomb found last year by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 of the Harvard University--Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition there will be brought to light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come...