Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Requiescat in pace", some think, should apply to the body as well as to the soul. Protest against the removal of General Oglethorpe's remains from England to Georgia all but reached the proportions of the storms which centered about the disinterement of Pocahontas or King Tut...
Will the Argentine Supplant Balieff and King Tut in Popular Favor? It is a subconscious maxim with Mr. Lee Shubert, Mr. George White and Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld that " - the things you will learn from the yellow an' brown They'll 'elp you a lot with the white." They seek glittering material for their revues from the life of other worlds. Their stages became hothouses where strange exotic plants, emerald, gold and scarlet, are bought across the seas for a brief blossoming. For 20 years American producing gardeners have been transplanting color, sound and movement - so great...
...girls-Tom Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...resembled Lord Carnarvon's in importance was that of the tomb of the father and mother of King Ti by Mr. Theodore Davis," continued Professor Chase. "This tomb had been entered before but a good deal of material had been left by the robbers. Previous to the excavation of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb, the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian glory was restricted to what could be gleaned from the few records and remains left in the already ransacked tombs. Now Lord Carnarvon has given the world a record as complete as the whole contents of a king's tomb...
...Reisner is temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...