Word: sphinx
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...Chorus girls? Another recurrent subject. Well, legs become a means of transportation, and the chorus girl, a Sphinx without a mystery. Sorry if this disappoints. No thanks, I haven't touched a drop for three years. Here's Tony. Give it to him; he's got to rewrite the show tonight for the Sunday performances--just one of our difficulties with your pleasant Boston blue laws...
...among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...
...points he won were what enabled Michigan to beat Indiana. They made his the most efficient individual performance in a Big Ten meet since Carl Johnson scored 20 points for Michigan in 1918. Quiet, unassuming, an above-average student of literature, Ward was the first Negro ever elected to Sphinx, Michigan's junior honor society...
...whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death the sphinx gazes forever, but never speaks...
...Washington that cautious and conservative old Manhattan lawyer, Statesman Stimson, had of course made no such bold statement. To one of his press conferences had come a group of correspondents, vaguely hopeful that the State Department's sphinx might say something and permit quotation. What did Mr. Stimson think, they asked, of reports that the Japanese Army had just launched a major offensive against Chinchow, the last Manchurian stronghold still in Chinese hands? Were the League of Nations...