Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the world. Example: the ceremonies among some Chaco tribes when a girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes a bath, is thenceforth considered grown up. Among the Bororos of Brazil, she moves...
...done all his talking for him. ("When he was mad," said a pal, "he'd just write in big, bold letters.") In "Mindy's," at Table 50 in the Cub Room of the Stork Club, and all along Broadway, the hard, bright, tawdry street that was his beat, the guys and dolls had known he was on borrowed time. But only gaunt Damon Runyon, suffering from cancer, gallstones and cirrhosis of the liver, had known how heavily he had borrowed...
...Washington studio, the décor is pinball-palace modern, badly beat up. The carpet is worn through, the stained orange velveteen seats are mostly out of whack. Cigaret butts smaller than a little fingernail mat the floor, and through the thick smoke appear big wall signs: "No Smoking." No self-respecting Frenchman would let such a challenge pass, and almost everybody (except babes in arms, of whom there were several) puffs away industriously...
Kenton's bandsmen began making more noise than any except perhaps Herman's. Kenton arrangements included trumpet and saxophone battles, with each section standing up to play its inning. Kenton beat out grandiose piano phrases against an elaborately embroidered bass. He called it "artistry in rhythm...
Died. Lewis J. Valentine. 64, New York City's hard-hitting former Police Commissioner (1934-45), who rose from cop-on-the-beat to head the nation's largest city police force, gave New York's slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white slavers, crooked politicos some of the toughest years they had ever known; after long illness; in Brooklyn...