Word: amerindian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered...
...This has tended to bring her the best work of unknown artists, the second-rate work of men with established reputations. It has also brought her a great diversity of works of art. At one time or another Mrs. Rockefeller has collected Japanese bird and flower prints, folk art, Amerindian paintings. New England primitives, Siamese sculpture...
Half way round the world three days later another automobile accident brought death to another woman of importance- Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, 62, wife of the Secretary of the Interior. The same enthusiasm which Secretary Ickes has for breeding dahlias, Mrs. Ickes gave to the study of the Amerindian. From Coolidge, N. Mex. where she had vacationed for the past ten years attending Indian tribal dances, Mrs. Ickes and a party of friends were last week on their way to Santa Fe to see more Indians. Near a filling station at a settlement known as Velarde the car, driven...
...passenger list of the Normandie, just before it sailed from Manhattan, a purser spied the name of Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition...
...Milwaukee, a baby, part Amerindian, was christened Franklin Delano Blue Eagle Knapinski...