Word: tutankhamen
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...ruts where first his chariot wheels carved their royal course, long have the mysteries of death been open sesame to him, yet this king, no older than the Shavian Cleopatra, still survives. Once the leader of a kingdom, again the leader of a Twentieth Century fad, Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much to amuse and thrill their welcoming hearts...
...agreed upon whereby Colonel Dennistoun would support the divorcée when he 'was in a financial position to do so, provided that she would not press for a court order for alimony. In 1923, a few months after the death of the fifth Earl of Carnarvon of Tutankhamen fame, Colonel Dennistoun married Almina, the Dowager Countess...
...days from mid-Atlantic, keep the world in touch with the progress of the scientific expedition of the New York Zoological Society, under William Beebe, which is adventuring in the Sargasso Sea aboard the wooden steamer Arcturus. Few scientific expeditions, excepting only the Carnarvon progress into the tomb of TutankhAmen, have had so much and such continued publicity during the progress of work...
Colonel Thompson himself was in Egypt at the time that the tomb of TutankhAmen was opened and secured a promise from the Egyptian Government that he should have some wheat if any were found. But not a grain has been discovered. He obtained, however, 200 or 300 grains of pedigreed wheat from other tombs, averaging 3,000 years in age. A little of this was planted to make certainty of its infertility doubly sure. Under the most favorable conditions, it failed to sprout. Some of the wheat was ground to flour, however, and chemical tests made. Faint reactions were obtained...
...GARDEN OF FOLLY-Stephen Leacock-Dodd Mead ($2.00). Stephen Leacock, Harold Lloyd of Letters, prefaces this volume with a quotation from Confucius-or TutankhAmen : "This poor old world works hard and gets no richer; worries much and gets no happier. It casts off old errors to take on new ones; laughs over ancient superstitions and shivers over modern ones. It is at best but a Garden of Follies, whose chattering gardeners move a moment among the flowers, waiting for the sunset...