Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prohibition went into effect Bombay's whites arose in their hangovers to find 500,000 natives milling in the streets. Egged on by Parsis, bone-dry Moslems paraded, denouncing, not prohibition, but the tax increase, stoned Hindu bystanders. Police and Prohibition Guards (see cut), whose motto is "harder than a diamond, yet softer than a flower," went into action. At the end of it more than 40 had been injured by bullets, blows or bludgeons, a 10 p. m. curfew was clapped on Bombay for 14 days, and assemblies of more than five forbidden. To popularize prohibition, authorities...
Thus last week sang Willie Long Bone, 71-year-old Delaware Indian, perched on a high stool, pounding a deerskin drum. Willie Long Bone sang for fun, but his audience, a seminar of the Linguistic Institute of America convened on the University of Michigan campus, plied their pencils feverishly, transcribing his words into phonetic symbols. Then for their benefit Willie translated his songs and long, chanted stories into English...
Reason the scribbling audience paid such close attention was that Willie Long Bone was speaking a nearly dead language. Despite a general increase in the U. S. Indian population, the number of Delawares is dwindling, and only about 40 of the oldest still speak the pure tongue...
Willie Long Bone learned English at a Government school, fathered a son who graduated from Drake University. Recently Professor Charles Frederick Voegelin of DePauw University discovered Willie on his 80-acre allotment in Oklahoma, brought him to Ann Arbor for the summer session. Willie has already made some 50 phonographic recordings of Delaware songs and tales. Between performances he walks around the University of Michigan campus in faded overalls, a floppy straw hat. For his singsonging he gets $2 a day and expenses...
...with AAA, the God of Drought came to his aid. Drought as well as subsidy and legal restriction reduced wheat surpluses, corn surpluses, even cotton surpluses. But three years ago Drought began to withdraw its assistance. This year Drought turned its attention (selectively) to the Northeastern States: May was bone dry and July was desert (until rains came last week) and both did plenty of damage to truck and fruit crops. But eastern Drought did not reduce the crops that are Mr. Wallace's big problems...