Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, where for years he has sculped in Classical and Renaissance styles. With the secrecy of an alchemist he produces the effect of century-long erosions on his statuary. Alceo insists that he is only a copyist. But he has a Greek Athena in the Cleveland Museum, a Renaissance tomb in the Boston Museum, a chastely draped Grecian maiden in the Metropolitan. The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped. Now they are chagrined...
...Harbury, England, is a limestone quarry which has served as a tomb for at least two denizens of primeval seas. Last February the fossil remains of a mammoth reptile were found there. Last week many a paleontologist hastened to Harbury to see another monstrous skeleton which had just been unearthed at only 300 yards distance from the first discovery...
...Egypt. Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, 4,800 years ago was the first great Pharaoh of Egypt. Harvard men under Dr. George A. Reisner have put together much history of his line. His father was Snefru, his mother Hetep-Heres I. Cheops loved her greatly. When her first tomb at Dahshur was robbed, he secretly reburied her at Giza, close to his pyramid. Cheops had four queens and several children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with...
...beloved? Good "Papa" Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...
...Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly in the wind, his face hidden by fluffy, square beard and flourishing moustache...