Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the 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...
Besides the manuscripts, Sir Aurel Stein and myself have brought back from that same cave hundreds of paintings on silk, on hemp, and on paper, embroideries, early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...being played in Manhattan by Lyn Harding (Macbeth) and Florence Reed (Lady Macbeth) in settings by famed Gordon Craig. These settings are the most notable circumstance of George C. Tyler's production; stairs in the castle, rocks along the moor, a road, a cave, a banquet hall-all of them are shadowed by the moods of the play...
...were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had rescued a beautiful damsel from suicide, loved her, and carried her to his secret cave...
Butte became certainly the ugliest town in the world, surrounded by mountains of gray-green refuse and black slag. Within the mines, men faced the imminent dangers of cave-ins and fires. When the timber supports once became ignited there was no hazarding when the fire might end. The St. Lawrence mine at Butte caught fire in 1899. Last week, it was still burning. And when miners were not meeting underground dangers, they kept one hand on their guns. Strangers in Butte spoke softly. Painted women learned it was safer to laugh than to talk...