Word: tibet
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Chinese readers scanned the ideographs and saw in their minds eye a far, high monastery in remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...makes no effort to wriggle out of her responsibilities. Whenever, in the course of the plot, she is called upon for a momentary snatch of acting, she is competent. Her well-shaped shoulders support a weak story and expensively featureless directing. The dusty hills and mountains of darkest Tibet are spectacular but they are not, one suspects, very far far from Southern California. Actress Gilda Gray was born in Poland to a poor man named Michelsky. He named his daughter Mariana, emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana grew up to marry a bartender...
...Members of a Buddhist sect, flourishing in Tibet or Mongolia; not to be confused with llamas, wooly, malodorous, South American, sheeplike ruminants...
...expedition. Captain Noel was appointed photographer of both expeditions to Mt. Everest, and therefore is regarded as an excellent authority on what actually happened. His new book gives a human account of all the exploration that has ever taken place in the region of Mt. Everest in southern Tibet. Going back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess...