Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the I. C. C. did disapprove. The C. & O. might absorb the Pere Marquette, it declared, but not the Erie. Again the Van Sweringens were frustrated and also had their pyramid system of finance roundly rebuked...
...sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason...
...week, and executed in good time his resignation as Lord High Chancellor. The incumbent of this office is the highest civil subject in the land outside the royal family. He keeps the King's conscience, sits on the Woolsack as Speaker of the House of Lords, surmounts the pyramid of English judges, partakes of membership in the Cabinet, and performs such chores as standing guardian of all infants and lunatics...
...morning last week this august man-child whooped and gamboled at play in the garden of an Egyptian hotel near the great pyramid of Cheops. Nearby reclined a young woman, easing certain internal pangs with a hot water bottle. She, roused by the scion's arrogant, unbridled shouts, rose up and hurled the comforting rubber bag at the Stanley child. Striking his shoulder, the bag burst, and scalded him so smartly that a physician had to be summoned...
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA...