Word: tomb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fool. Even Frederick the Great had bent the knee to Voltaire. Ludwig would have Wagner's exile canceled, would give him a house. Soon the rotund, drab little man grubbed with filthy hands in his own garden at Wahnfried, Bayreuth, Bavaria. He was building a tomb in that garden, near where Liszt slept. Perhaps his German premiere would fail like his others. Then. . . . . But when he ambled vaguely down the aisle of his own theatre on the night of August 13, 1876, he felt he would not fail. His wife, Cosima, Liszt's daughter, talked excitedly, pointed...
...slender, 35, stood by her husband's bier with their son, 15, while the body lay in state for 24 hours in Trade Union House, Moscow. Though exhausted, she retained strength to follow the coffin to Red Square, where it was interred not far from the black marble tomb of Lenin...
Formalcies. Prince and Princess unveiled a statue of John Ericsson west of the Lincoln Memorial at the river brink. It was a plaster model of what is to be. The President spoke, then the Prince. The Prince and Princess visited Mount Vernon, and laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington...
That out of the "Bones" tomb on initiation day, a burly naked arm shoots forth to clutch and drag inside the proselytes. (The arm belongs, usually, to a prominent athlete, of which "Bones" has enrolled many...
...rumors and legends there is no end. One story has it that in the middle of the last century, while the societies were still young, some daring undergraduate spies invaded the "Bones" tomb-and never more were heard of in this life. Others say that fabulous treasures and curiosities are stored within the various cryptic walls, brought there by brethren from high office* or daring adventures- the original Declaration of Independence, the very skull of Napoleon, a wolf shot by Buffalo Bill, a key to the main gate of the Vatican. Wildest of all are the rumors about what...