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...limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come out of the cemeteries and catacombs and get out in the daylight...
...will henceforth decide when and where the Institute's parties shall dig reads hieroglyphics for relaxation, sometimes detective stories. He is married, has three children. Though Director Wilson, like his predecessor, has delved in the tomb of TutankhAmen, he is unimpressed by the tabloid demonology which would put him under a Pharaoh's "curse." In fact, he points out, insurance actuaries marvel at the ripe old age at which most Egyptologists...
...Scorched. Although the present Chinese Government professes to rule in the spirit of its late and sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's principles, not even Saint Sun's imposing granite tomb at Nanking nor the Saint's picture in every Chinese official's office deters Editor Woodhead from attempting to scorch...
...wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel a need for words...
This stone, obtained through the generosity of A. Kingsley Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at that time, was from the Sahagun Tomb of Alfenso, tutor of King Alfenso VI, who reigned from 1072 to 1109. It is considered to be the most ancient example of European sepulchral sculpture which remains from the middle ages...