Word: sphinx
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...hour or so after the second attack, Lord Balfour was spirited from the spot in a high-powered automobile and only reappeeared at Beirut, where he boarded the ship Sphinx which was bound for Alexandria, Egypt...
...earl fleeing to the Sphinx...
...CRIMSON's predecessor relates, "but the President and the northwest wind--the latter failing to please because it did blow, and the former because he didn't--but both seem to be unaccountable to any human authority. . . . Our nation's President carried off his one great role of sphinx-like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect considering. He then gracefully removed his plug, and a faint motion...
...heels of secondary school teachers is hung high and safe. "What is good English?" has wracked the best brains of England and America. This question is rumored to have brought white hairs upon thousands of academic craniums and it ranks fifth among the causes of suicide. At last, the Sphinx is answered, and right nobly...
...amazing world. When in the starlit heaven the majesty of the sun comes and goes the great men of the earth step forth into the unnatural darkness and reveal themselves in their own true light. Coolidge the President, Coolidge the "strong silent man," of the White House, Coolidge the Sphinx become a critic of fashion! It doubtless took all of that sophisticated air so carefully nurtured in Old Nassau to keep the jaws of the three Princeton men from gaping wide when President Coolidge objected to the cut and width of their trousers...