Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Frankau's job, outside of novel writing, is that of weekly political columnist for the Cockney-Tory Sunday Pictorial. In the U. S. he recently gaped at the hanging of Murderer Gerald Chapman and described it for Publisher Hearst...
...collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly...
...Under what did Roy Chapman Andrews rush when bombed in China...
Scientist Bombed. When two of Chang's airplanes flew over Peking early in the week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia...
After satirizing several prominent educational institutions, Chapman, the final speaker for Harvard, gave the essence of his argument by saying, "education hardens the mind, thickens the skull, makes us uncomfortable within and unbearable without...