Word: unpack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barely waiting to unpack, Mabel set off with a bag of oranges to break down the Indians' aloofness. Hastening her steps was the dread thought that "if people knew about what is here, they'd rush upon it and simply eat it up. ..." With a possessiveness much like that which she had formerly felt toward artists and writers, she declared fiercely: "I'd hate to have these Indians get recognition! Why, it would be the end of them!" Her first stop was at an adobe hut where a blanketed full-blooded Indian named Tony Luhan...
...Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin...