Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowds massed at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier on the day the engagement was officially proclaimed last week. It was 9:30 in the morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
From the musty dryness of a Canopic jar which once stood in a Pharaoh's tomb a London surgeon took the dead Pharaoh's dried and leather heart. He dissected it and marveled. His amazement he told to Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...
Recently Tutankhamen, "handsomest of the Pharaohs," has enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...
Died. John Hemingway Duncan, 76, architect, designer of Grant's Tomb and Trenton (N. J.) Battle Monument; of heart disease; at Highland Beach...
Having slept in Abraham Lincoln's bed at the White House, Scot MacDonald moved to the British Embassy for his last days in Washington, rode out early in the afternoon to doff his hat at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. Lest anyone suppose Mr. Hoover had told him to do this to ensure Democratic Senatorial votes for a future treaty, Embassy officials announced that he went of his own volition...