Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon the tomb. The three then stepped back and bowed their heads in reverence. Mrs. Coolidge then advanced and laid...
Said a super-critic: "If critics who have so carefully laid their round formal wreaths upon Sargent's tomb should discover in these murals some reminiscence of the art calendar, let them not suggest that 'Philosophy' might have been intended as the decoration for a magazine poem; that 'Science Measuring the Heavens While a Young Woman Makes Record' looks like a satire upon the modern Babbitt's indispensable stenographer. Such things are matters of opinion, and the only opinion which has not yet been given upon John Singer Sargent is that of posterity...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...whatever is the Egyptian equivalent for "Thank heaven that's over!" and prepare to expostulate personally with the archaeologists who have been disturbing his rest for two years. There has been singularly little excitement at the news that he is finally to see the light of day. When his tomb was first discovered, front page stories ran riot. Feminine accessories at once took on an Egyptian character which might have made an ancient Egyptian ill but was good enough to satisfy the public. Vaudeville actors and professional funny men took as many liberties with "King Tut" as they ever...
...Manhattan a man wrote a letter to the Times about Grant's tomb. He asked: "Why are boys and young men permitted to play handball against the walls of that monument? . . . Why should the young people of this generation so lack in taste and decency as to play their games on the very tomb of one of our generals...