Word: scroll
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interesting were last week's despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah). With the body was a scroll in which Solomon, supposedly, wrote: "When Moti poured the wine into the cups I noticed that Amerto [her malicious father] did not extend his hand. Nevertheless, I unsuspectingly raised my cup to my lips. Thereupon Moti snatched the cup and drank the [poisoned] wine herself...
...course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had even received one of these manscripts, a Buddhist scroll of the eighth century, from Duke Lan, a cousin of the Chinese Emperor, against whom I had fought at the time of the siege of the Peking Legation in 1900, but who had since become my friend. Of course I was eager to know more about the find. When I reached...
Before other news-sheets had inscribed their scroll, the Oregon Aggies (School of, Agriculture) came east last week to play N. Y. U. and Stanford came east, like a troupe of gay and warlike hoboes, to play the Army...
...externally the 1300 cadets are one perfectly drilled and orgainzed body; their individuality is merged into the strong and envied West Point type; and they inherit the long scroll of the Corps's distinguished record
Having surveyed this unhappy scroll, only the most rabid and unfastidious fundamentalists could be proud of Gov. Smith's adversary. Honest churchmen were mortified that such a man should share their feelings, much more that he should have undertaken to voice them. They could not fail to see more evidences of vice in the clergyman's record than in the candidate's and they were forced to acknowledge a characterization of their lamentable spokesman which was offered by the Chicago Tribune ". . . narrow-minded, pompous bigot . . . gluttonous for printer's ink, publicity and the front page. . . . Even...