Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haven Putnam, daughter of Archaeologist-Artist Joseph Lindon Smith, who executed the mural decorations in the Boston Public Library and has made numerous excavations in Egypt; to William Ambrose Taylor Jr., onetime U, S. diplomat...
Colonel Lawrence is a vagabond about the world, and an archaeologist, who has a habit of getting lost. During the Great War he disappeared, only to be discovered at the head of 300,000 fighting men from the desert who were with Allenby at Jerusalem...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
...desert compose the panorama, which finally reaches its climax at the beginning of the snow-less Mongolian winter when the expedition sights the walls of ancient Kharakhoto, the Black City of Marco Polo, deserted for centuries to the shifting sands of the desert, a romantic paradise for the adventuring archaeologist...
...real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska State), reporter and editor (Pittsburgh Leader and McClure's Magazine), teacher and archaeologist, enough to "last a lifetime" is increasingly a subtle artist after the Wordsworth formula, "emotion recollected in tranquillity...