Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number, and a burlesque Hamlet done in the manner of The Student Prince are the major features. There are only a handful of chorus girls; each in her time plays many parts. The scenery is by the briskly amusing John Held Jr. Charles Butterworth, Notre Dame 1923 and utterly unknown to Broadway fame, was the funniest performer. The hesitant and quizzical polish of Mr. Atwell is agreeably employed in ballyhooing the show's progress between scenes...
...when asked what it was, he said: "I can't tell you. I had to ask Mr. Edison, but he didn't know. He said there were only two things in the world and electricity was the other one. One is matter. The other is this unknown something which makes matter move...
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
...excavator of the sacred well of Yum Chac, the Rain God, and many another spot in Chichen Itza, the Mayan Capital (TIME, May 17, BOOKS), has pushed his investigations inland to Coba, an older, provincial Mayan city [visited last winter by Dr. Gann (TIME, April 26)]. The expedition found unknown ruins called by local bush-dwellers "Macanxoc" meaning "you can't read it," ruins of what was doubtless Coba's religious centre...
...deeper in wild Chiapas, the Mexican savants found a still older city, Junchavin, near the Guatemalan border. Signs indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants had covered their spacious settlement with a blanket of masonry before evacuating. The inscriptions on monoliths and on a "million-year-old" stone were reported of unknown designs, surely pre-Mayan...