Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included with the dozen abandoned expeditions is Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews' to Central Asia where he finds dinosaur eggs. The Chinese have refused to let him hunt more eggs and bones. He could reach the region by way of Russia and Siberia. But then he would be obliged to traffic with the Russians, a business which would displease the museum's supporters. So he will remain in Manhattan this winter and spring, writing up his past activities and warding off the verbal assaults of women explorers who, he declared last week, are fitted neither temperamentally nor physically...
...Folks talk a heap concerning progress, yet come to look at pictures of it and 'tis a mess." Maristan Chapman's Tennessee mountaineers think and speak throughout in such pithy proverbialisms. Their language is often outlandish?it takes a 62-word glossary to explain words like "bo-dacious," "fere." "hirpling," "survigrous,"' "smooch." These rough diamonds the author matrixes in a poetic style showing traces of T. F. Powys. J. M. Synge and the translators of the Holy Bible...
...Author. Mary Ilsley, 36, was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in the midst of her material. During the War she worked in England, married Engineer John Stanton Chapman. After the Armistice the Chapmans went back to the Tennessee hills, solved the housing problem by roaming wild for two years in a house-car. When "Maristan Chapman's" first book (The Happy Mountain} appeared, Mary got the credit. Last month their secret came out: "Maristan Chapman" is a combination of Mary and Stanton...
...George Kaufman, well-known play-wright, which was featured in the "Music Box Review" a few years ago. It is called "If Men Played Bridge Like Women." The-Senior Tutor, J. A. Ross, who takes the part of "John" entertains his friends, "Bob," O. H. Tayler, "George," O. W. Chapman, find "Mare" played by C. C. Abbott...
...Earl of Harewood, son-in-law of George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...