Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owners. Reason : some of the tribesmen were suspected of murdering recently British District Commander Captain Ferguson. Result: 34 chiefs of the Lau tribe surrendered, last week, to a small British land force. The chiefs, cowed, were then obliged to watch while British bombers completely demolished their sacred shrine, the Pyramid of Dengkur, long a place of idolatrous, witch-doctoring worship...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...
...soulless and the British sculptors have succeeded in portraying this. The War should have had no record at all in art. Modern art is all French. Italy appears to have had her say. Russia goes from bad to worse. One of her bright sculptors executed a piece showing a pyramid standing on its apex. I suppose he was portraying a revolution. England has never had a sculptor. I cannot speak for America until I have seen what there is. I should say, from what I know, their architecture is much better than that of England...
Disappointed but not downcast, Dr. Reisner hunted further, in recesses of the Cheops Pyramid itself. Last May he found the tomb of one of Cheops' granddaughters and a canopic box containing organic matter in a yellowish liquid. Perhaps the organic matter was Queen Hetep-Heres' entrails, removed before mummification. But her mummy was still missing...
Perhaps, admitted the diggers, the tomb had been a temporary one for King Zoser, used pending Im-Hotep's completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...