Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless one wonders if Mr. Larkin does not feel something of the pride which moved Cheops when he built the pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose...
...leisurely reading. Oscar Wilde said that our youthfulness was our oldest tradition. "It has been going on now for 300 years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will be erected on a scaffolding of light, standard-size steel girders. --New York Times...
...Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a pious desire to have his parent near him in death, the son had moved them...
...more fascinating hobby for the layman of a romantic and imaginative turn than to find a satisfactory answer to this conundrum. And if be has been lucky he has once seen a white temple rising through the green of tropical foliage, or has stood on an old pyramid awed by the silence of a whole city silver in the moonlight! What puzzle can compete for fascination with inscrutable hieroglyphs which contain now only secrets, although carved to proclaim facts...
...difficulty the first block was removed and it was found that many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...