Word: sphinx
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...published the following works, including "Riddles of the Sphinx", "Plato or Protagoras?", "Humanism", and "Tantalus, or the Future of Man", He is a member of the Royal Society...
...satisfied only by the cloyingly sensuous in image, thought and deed. He told Mrs. Toon in his note that he was "bathing his brow in the perfume of waterlilies." The season previous his play, Salome, had been refused a license. In a few months he was to publish The Sphinx, a poetic catalog of "amours frequent and fine," dedicated to one Marcel Schwob. He had played and acted many variations upon his epigram, "Industry is the root of all ugliness." The next year, 1895, he was to be branded publicly and sent to prison for perverted practices...
Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...
...since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very awe which the massive dimensions...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...