Word: anthropologist
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...Fashion decreed that the lady should always take the gentleman's arm, but alas, his was too high to reach. He had to carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes...
FRANK J. MAHONY District Anthropologist Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Truk, Caroline Islands
...long view of Anthropologist Harrington...
...visiting U.S. anthropologist, seeing at once that the child was suffering from an infestation of worms, asked the father's permission to take it to a doctor. The father shamefacedly stalled for a day, another day, and a third-until the child died. Then the reason for the father's reluctance became shockingly clear. The family and all the neighbors danced, sang and drank deep at a gay, all-night wake, planned days before and sanctioned by their belief that all children who die go happily and directly to heaven. An ill-timed cure of the youngster would...
...White never knew or cared what percentage of his ancestry was Negro, though Harvard Anthropologist Earnest Hooton estimated it at i/64th. In most states, he was legally a white man, and even in some areas of the Deep South, e.g., the Carolinas, White would have passed as a white under the miscegenation laws...