Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of sealing the tomb is to enable Dr. Reisner to utilize his experience in recording this unique discovery. Nothing has been touched inside the tomb. Those who have seen the find have only looked in from the doorway at the bottom of the 80 foot shaft. The date of Dr. Reisner's return to Egypt has not yet been determined...
...authorities to continue to preserve strict secrecy regarding further investigation of the new Giza tomb, but I learn today from a source which I have every reason to consider trustworthy that one of the expert Egyptologists working at Saqqarah descended into the shaft and after reading the inscription expressed the opinion that it was the tomb of Sneferuw himself...
...explosion was thought to have taken place near the shaft and its force was felt in all three levels of the mine. Miners near the shaft were blown to pieces, others were killed by suffocation. At one point, an inscription was found chalked up on the wall: "All well up to 11 o'clock. Nine men." Under the inscription lay the nine men-all dead. At another place, three brothers were found dead, locked in one another's arms...
...narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother, in a jazz wedding ceremony...
...greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...