Word: sunkenness
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...dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...issuing from this complex expedition, a main point being that the Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city...
...deep buried in the sea, is the ideal city of Atlantis; and from it, on the quiet nights, when the winds are still, if a man's heart is right, he can hear the pealing of the bells. Such is the soul of man with sacred things deep sunken, which life's stormy noise makes us forget; and here, oftentimes on a Sunday morning, we have been quieted in worship until we heard the pealing of the bells...
...possible to salvage between $4,000,000 and $6,000,000 in gold and valuables that sank with the Lusitania. The Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine in 1915, lies in 42 fathoms of water off the southern coast of Ireland. It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures...
...anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...