Word: smile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This possibility has been strengthened by the discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics...
...contemporaries. There will be nothing incongruous in the appearance of the modern debutante in a dress made of Tutankhamen silks. "Luxorian models are all the rage, and the Pharoahic skirt is destined to appear at Palm Beach and the Copley." And wives of the future may adopt the "Ankhsenpaten smile...
Four years is a long time to wait, but everything must have an end. The Senior's day has come at last. For him the sun shines, for him the fountains and bands play, for him the girls smile and on their prettiest dresses. And for the first time in the last two weeks he is able to enjoy it all. His tickets of many colors have been distributed for better or for worse; his packing boxes stand ready in the hall; he has ended the bother of reading endless notices by memorizing the entire program for Commencement Week...
Were American trade with Canada the subject of a discussion, the casual passer-by would probably smile knowingly to himself and mutter the one word, "bottlegging". However vast this traffic may be (and it looms up largest in the minds of those who know the least about it, no doubt) it is small compared to the rest of the exports and imports between the two countries. The fact is that Canada, close to us, geographically, is becoming more and more so in here various interests. The bond that holds Canada to England is probably not so strong, economically speaking...
...Leave Me With a Smile...