Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere beyond Mexicali, where they left her alone for an unguarded hour; she sawed through her rope on a tin can, wandered all night over cactus and mesquite ... At last the road to Douglas ... a Friend . . . safety . . . escape...
...McLain left Butte, Mont., several weeks ago. He left after dinner with Mayor William H. Horgan and Judge Joseph R. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the state of Montana, many city officials and other prominent citizens. For many months, perhaps for years, he will not see the tin sardine and preserved fruit cans collecting their films of copper in the gullies around his home town. He will be in Manhattan studying "for a début in the New York music world...
...Sahara, at Hoggar, a band of French and Americans? "Count" Byron Kuhn de Prorok,* Algerian officials, and Trustee W. Bradley Tyrrell of Beloit College (Wis.)?broke into the reputed tomb of Tin Hinan, semi-legendary queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold...
...Paris, journalistic sarcasm was drowned in archeologists' enthusiasm when Digger de Prorok laid his finds before the government. Professor Stephane Gsell of the College of France demonstrated before the Institute of France that Tin Hinan, whose tomb and skeleton he was inclined to believe had been found, could not have lived earlier than 1,000 B. C.; probably about 900 B. C. Others aimed their guesses at her actual date between those two centuries...
...Night Cry. There has never yet been a dog film that had a sensible plot. This one is the usual string of improbabilities pieced together to give Rin-Tin-Tin a chance. He, as a sheep dog, is accused of murdering baby lambs. Out of this cruel situation he extricates himself satisfactorily and (if you like Rin-Tin-Tin) entertainingly...