Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High on the Continental Divide in the States of Arizona and New Mexico is a great reservation belonging to some 40,000 gypsy-like members of the Navajo Nation, famed of old as blanket-weavers, silversmiths. And to the east through New Mexico are scattered the adobe cities of the Pueblo peoples (best known settlements are the two "skyscrapers" at Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every...
...council comprises 35 colleges, and it is expected that over 200 delegates will attend the model assembly. There will be a blanket fee of two or three dollars from each delegate to cover the necessary expenses...
More smug than the Boston Herald's haggling over the die-hard principle is its blanket statement to the effect that there is no suffering throughout the drought stricken area. How can such sweeping optimism be entertained by a newspaper almost two thousand miles away in the face of the fact that the representatives in Congress for that area are clamoring for help for their constituents. Whether these demands for aid are a political move or not does not excuse the Boston Herald from appearing to play a political game...
...savagery, with a love story for sweetening. Trader Horn (oldtime Wild West Cinemactor Harry Carey) and his friend Little Peru find a white native goddess (Edwina Booth), daughter of a deceased missionary. She saves them from being roasted upside down. They flee. Eventually Mr. Carey prudently wraps a blanket around naively nude Miss Booth, sends her on to civilization with Peru, then heads off again into the wilderness...
Despite the fact that a harrassed, if not a helpless, Congress is faced with a nation wide orisis in unemployment, the veterans want several billions of dollars put into their pockets right away. The command mentions only the relief for disabled veterans, but the blanket bonus is the real driving force...