Word: slabbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sarcophagus slab, around which was to center negotiations leading up to a unique international exchange of all objects, was presented to the Fogg Museum...
Finally, by 1933, the political situation had become more stable, and on July 8, an exchange was finally effected. In place of the sarcophagus slab, the Fogg received a marble column from a monastery in Santiago, a double capital from a thirteenth century monastery in Palencia, some ancient Spanish pottery and 24 small bronze figures. The latter were found in a sanctuary near a mining district and may have been votive offerings to the gods of minerals...
...Grand Council of Fascism, united on the eve of the application of so-called sanctions, regards the date Nov. 18, 1935 as a day of ignominy and iniquity in the history of the world. . . . The Grand Council orders each city and town council of Italy to erect a slab to record the Economic Siege, so that it will remain throughout the centuries as a documentation of the enormous injustice perpetrated against Italy, which has contributed so much to the civilization of all continents. . . . The Grand Council acclaims its enthusiasm in Il Duce, who realizes the supreme right of the nation...
...Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation-which means they leave out the point. . . . Even a mangled body on a [morgue] slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail...
...notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed by a powerful potion poured over him by She, herself, when Leo Vincey appears to be a reincarnation of his ill-fated ancestor...