Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must contemplate the body of a woman closely and often if he is to preserve an image of their love; that an old waiter's face is finer than that of the average bishop ("It's a question of faithful service") ; that Washington is the "Tibet of democracy"; that understanding, humility and fortitude are the only virtues ("to be kind when you don't want...
Archie Roosevelt: "My brothers, Theodore and Kermit, were robbed of their unique distinction as hunters of ovis poli when, last week, an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, under William J. Morden and James L. Clark, cabled from Peking its return from Tibet and Turkestan with enough of the creatures to make a large family group. The despatch said ovis poli were 'not so rare'; reported that the natives slaughter them wholesale for meat; reported seeing 33 in one herd. . . . My brother, Theodore, was active last week making speeches in his native state (New York...
...William Montgomery McGovern, a distinguished English explorer, a member of the Royal Geographical and Royal Asiatic Societies, will deliver an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight, telling of his adventures on his trip to Lhasa, the forbidden city of Tibet...
...explorer will lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The subject of the address will be "To Lhasa in Disguise", and will be illustrated with pictures taken with great difficulty by the explorer on his epoch-making expedition to Tibet's capitol...
...most versatile of living English scientists, Dr. McGovern is not only famous for important Amazonian explorations, but is still more renowned as the first white man to penetrate into Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet. As a lecturer he stood in the front ranks in the Oxford Union, and has addressed the leading British societies...