Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Brent goes digging in the tomb of Ramses V, she takes to lounging around in the incense-heavy den of her blackmailer-lover (Charles Korvin), plotting her husband's murder. By the time Brent's system has absorbed about all the slow poison it will stand, Merle suddenly searches her heart and discovers that her husband, after all, is the man she really, truly loves. With no alternative, the unhappy lady briskly feeds the knockout powders to her lover instead...
John White explored the Virginia coast in 1585, and two years later Sir Walter Raleigh sent him back to found and govern a colony. He sailed back to England with watercolors of American butterflies, turtles, and of an Indian tomb-temple on stilts, decorated with the skins and bones of ten mummified chiefs. When he returned to Virginia three years later, the colony had vanished...
...advance of social medicine is breaking no speed records in the U.S. But in New York City last week it got a sharp spur: the city's Board of Estimate approved a "womb to tomb" health plan for 175,000 municipal employes and their families. More important, the city's action put pep in a new organization, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York...
...King stepped ashore, a small cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...especially concerned over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very day the tomb was opened a cobra ate the chief explorer's canary...