Word: pharoahic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Civic Opera Company competently negotiated the first week of its repertoire. Aida was the first to be taken out of storage, dusted and dressed in all its Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden...
...course of a discussion on the Tutankhamen discoveries, Mr. Hardie, Labor member, asked whether the Government had any proof that Pharoah's body was really in the tomb. "No, Sir," replied Mr. MacNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "the Government is not aware that the body of his late Majesty is in the tomb!" Another wag solemnly inquired whether any request had come from Egyptians to dig among the tombs of British Kings and Queens in Westminster Abbey, and what reply would be made to it? A disgusted Under-Secretary merely glared...
...mere lapse of a few milleniums is not enough to relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...