Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
...staircase with narrow treads and high risers they entered the tomb's antechamber. Nothing remarkable there. Beyond was a flat-ceilinged room. Again nothing remarkable. But there was a second room in whose murk things glittered. Professor Caso forbade any one to follow him except his wife and two other assistants. Carefully they crawled forward...
After laying a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington, Father Cox mustered his army, started on the 300-mi. trip back to Pittsburgh. (Expenses for returning 276 stragglers by train were defrayed by Pennsylvania's richest citizen, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.) Again, as they rumbled by, grave crowds watched them as though for the first time they were seeing a genuine sign of the times...
...affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government. But like...
Listed in the general pussification was an original Rembrandt etching ("The Holy Family With Cat"); an Egyptian tomb cat from Cairo; a 15th Century German woodcut; prints by Whistler, Pennell, Félicien Rops, Foujita, Wanda Gag; Currier & Ives lithographs; needlepoint and embroidery cats; and a fine carved cat by Sculptor William Zorach...