Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tomb. The earliest known tattooed human was an Egyptian mummy excavated from a tomb marked 2000 B.C. The Japanese are said to have practiced the art for nearly 2,500 years. It has been known to Christianity since the 13th Century, when the Crusaders returned tattooed from the Holy Land. Probably responsible for tattooing's popularity among sailors was Captain Cook, who in 1769 wrote of the custom among South Sea Islanders...
...rupees-My hotel bill in Colombo. That hotel always was bad, but since they've been expecting air raids, they built up a solid wall around it-and now it's like the inside of a tomb. There were two baths for my entire floor, and I had to keep my windows shut because otherwise the full blast of the monsoon slugged the black raindrops all over the room...
...those who rest here. May He keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...
Next sensation broke in Paris. In 1909 Epstein was commissioned to carve a figure for Oscar Wilde's tomb. He purchased a 20-ton block of stone, spent nine months in London carving "a demon-angel, in full flight across the face of the world," transported the work to Paris. The French were even more shocked than the English. Says Author Black: "This simplified and symbolic statue was violently objected to because it possessed genitals." To the fury of Critic Remy de Gourmont, author of a famed biological theory of esthetics, puritanical Frenchmen covered the offending fact with...
...plutocratic Farm Bureau Federation has ceased its predatory strategy. Labor, damned for years as the most noisy group in Washington, has been singularly silent since the "act or else" speech of Labor Day. The National Association of Manufacturers is as quiet as the crickets in King Tut's tomb. Only the farm bloc stands in the way of immediate and effective anti-inflation legislation...