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...tomb found last year by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 of the Harvard University--Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition there will be brought to light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the authorities as the University have received, in the official reports which are few and far between, the only authentic information which has come to the United States. Since last year it has been generally known that a tomb of some significance was found by Dr. Reisner but nothing has been said with regard to the circumstances of the find and the probable value of the tomb...
...ladybugs. . . . I was taken for a Frenchman in Damascus and bombarded with rotten fruit . . . . No wonder! Near there I saw 300 Senegalese soldiers riding along on camels and lashing at the faces of passing Syrians with long whips. A fine way to pacify them! . . . I visited Enrico Caruso's tomb while in Italy, and was surprised to find his perfectly embalmed corpse lying in a glass sarcophagus, clad in evening clothes. . . . He almost appeared alive. . . The attendant who raised the American flag which covered the sarcophagus demanded one lira (4¢) as his fee. . . . I am sure that this traffic...
...great ocean of the past. The old year is a memory, the new year is an event. A tear for the old, a warm hand clasp for the new, a sigh for the departed, a song for the new guest. What happened yesterday has been consigned to the tomb. The future concerns...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...