Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast, glassed-in courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides, only a few paces from the tomb of Napoleon, the whole 2,500 Legionnaires were seated at one time to eat a Paris lunch so good that ultimately all cheered and handclapped a strapping Legionnaire who rose and bellowed: "So far as I am concerned the French debt is settled-all agreed...
...atmosphere and lighting in Widener is not unlike that of a tomb. If some improvements such as those suggested above were introduced, the room might attract more readers. In any event the changes would make studying more pleasant for those who have to use the reading room. Robert Adamson...
...issued in 1852 the Christian Recorder, oldest continuous Negro periodical. In 1830 U. S. Negroes met at Mother Bethel Church in their first national convention. By the time Bishop Allen died in 1831, he was worth $30,000 and his devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's northern army pecked gingerly at the remnant of Asturian militiamen still holding out at Gijón on the Bay of Biscay last week, otherwise Spain was as quiet as the tomb it is rapidly becoming. From Madrid there was no word, on the Aragon front both sides seemed exhausted after the Leftist capture of Belchite. The war was going on, but the real scene of action had switched to a small sedate town on the shore of Lake Geneva-Nyon...
...Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...