Word: carter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carnavon's body was being sent home. The paper suggested that his coffin be searched, declaring itself not at all sure that archaeological treasures might not be concealed in it. After this the expedition and the government proceeded to exchange discourtesies; the government by slighting European ladies, and Mr. Carter by affronting officials with the result, presumably, that none of the objects from the tomb will over be taken farther than Cairo...
...which is coupled with so much political dislike. Hoover, Hughes and Root cannot take it, even if they would, because Republicans as a body are against it. Among Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur?but none of national proportions?...
Egypt. Work in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor proceeded with painstaking slowness incomprehensible to the layman who would prefer to tear the secrets of the ages from TutankhAmen's breast in a day. Howard Carter and his staff have removed large quantities of highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably...
Henri, Charles H. Davis, Leon Kroll, Robert Spencer, John Folinsbee, Frederick Frieseke, Richard Miller, Jerome Myers, Bryson Burroughs, Henry Mc-Carter, Hugh Breckenridge, Hobart Nichols, Ernest Lawson, R. S. Meryman, Edward C. Volkert...
...four men are Robert L. Hyatt, Jr., '24 of Monticello, Arkansas; Felin I. Shaffner '25 of Phoenix, Arizona; Wilton D. Cole '24 of Webster City, Iowa; and Carter M. Braxton 1G, of Jacksonville, Florida. Braxton was elected as a candidate from the University of Virginia. These elections are subject to ratification by the Rhodes trustees...