Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 700 people fainted in the broiling sun, but swarms of sightseers climbed the monument's steps to gaze reverently at the bas-reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...
...only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...
...touch briefly on William Morgan, and his attempted "exposure" of Masonic secrets ... In the old Batavia cemetery . . . stands a tall shaft surmounted by the figure of a man. This monument was erected in 1880 by the National Christian Association, a group opposed to all forms of secret societies. An inscription at the base of the monument states that it was erected to William Morgan "by volunteer contributions from over 2,000 persons residing in Canada, Ontario, and 26 of the United States and territories ... He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826 by Free Masons and murdered...
...press association sent out a shamefaced bulletin: the news was not true. After that, government police started an investigation of the report and moved in on Promoter Milne's fabulous borehole. Under their watchful eye, Milne drilled another "deflection" test (a boring near the bottom of the shaft) within a few inches of where the first fabulous strike had been made. The test ore was turned over to the government's assayers. Their report: the ore indicated a yield of 2 oz. of gold per ton of ore, or about 1/24Oth of the record yield previously reported...
...monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been set up at the foot of the shaft. From his pocket, Egyptologist Guinet-Chaplain whipped a new, three-inch cigarette lighter, positively guaranteed to light in the highest wind, at any altitude. While his assistant Mario brandished the parasol and harangued the crowd by walkie-talkie from. the monument's top (see cut), Guinet-Chaplain proceeded to demonstrate...