Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
Professor Graton plans to study ore deposition and behavior of rocks at different depths, in order to be able to calculate the conditions that exist at still deeper depths. In addition to places mentioned above he will visit mines in Spain, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and the Belgian Congo. He is being financially aided in this research work by the Bureau of International Research. At the conclusion of his work he will write several articles for scientific publications...
There was a D. A. R. reception by President and Mrs. Coolidge. There were speeches by Belgian Ambassador Baron de Cartier, whose wife is reputed to be the best dressed woman in Washington; and by Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur, whose wife is an able cook. At intervals people played to the Daughters on organs, bugles, harps, xylophones. Young ladies in white frocks functioned as pages, had their pictures taken with famed Daughters. Jealous young ladies not invited to usher went about Washington calling the lucky ones "D. A. R.-lings," "patriettes...
...claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked taxi-drivers; a carp-eyed spinster with a goitre like a wasp's nest; a Belgian...
Died. Baron Auguste Goffinet, faithful friend and guardian of the late mad Empress Charlotte (TIME, Jan. 31) ; onetime secretary of Belgian King Leopold II; in Brussels. He said: "Leopold was right when he told me years ago, 'Empress Charlotte is to bury us all except yourself...