Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris and 14,000 legionaries with their women folk formed into parade line. In their hands they held blue, white and red flowers. They marched; were cheered; cheered back cheerily. The rain stopped. Through the Arc de Triumphe they went?special privilege?and about the Unknown Soldier's tomb they dropped their red, white and blue posies...
...Next day the Mayor arrived, only half an hour late, at the Unknown Solider's Tomb. "I should have preferred," he told General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to come to Paris incognito to decipher the soul of the city." "You incognito! Impossible!" said General Gouraud...
Twenty thousand legionnaires on the sea?hundreds pouring into Paris each day. Some followed one-armed General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, through the pouring rain to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Lamp of Maintenance on the Tomb of the Soldat Inconnu was relighted, hav-ing been snuffed out by the Communists (TIME, Sept. 5), who spat upon and "otherwise defiled" the sacred spot...
Disappointed but not downcast, Dr. Reisner hunted further, in recesses of the Cheops Pyramid itself. Last May he found the tomb of one of Cheops' granddaughters and a canopic box containing organic matter in a yellowish liquid. Perhaps the organic matter was Queen Hetep-Heres' entrails, removed before mummification. But her mummy was still missing...
...first letter appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1887, correcting a statement that George Cruikshank, famed caricaturist, was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery -his tomb really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows...