Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight hours later, to Grant's Pass came Flying Cloud of the Karooks to receive $500. And then, while a fellow redskin trotting beside him played old airs on a harmonica, came 55-year-old Melika of the Zuni tribe to receive plaudits befitting a barrel-chested...
...mentions Mt. Harney but he does not say what Gen. W. S. Harney did to the Indians. He does not mention the massacre of Little Thunder, a peaceful Chief who happened to have his camp in the line of Harney's march. He does not mention the Red Cloud war. Nor does he mention the solemn treaties the Government made at different times with the Indians and then violated foully. Nor does he mention that Capt. Fetterman and Custer paid with their lives for some of the atrocities committed against the Indians by soldiers and other whites. Since...
...maudlin journalese. Mrs. Lindbergh, dignified, poised, was the theme of countless prose variations of Mother Machree. Had Colonel Lindbergh possessed a wife or sweetheart, one hesitates to think what would have been written about her. What Colonel Lindbergh did and said at his various receptions was fogged in a cloud of superlatives and oratory. Mediocre speeches, inane songs* and wretched poetry shadowed him. But the fact remains that the newspapers have made an entire country as small and closely knit as a village. Usually it is the village bad boys and girls-erring corset salesmen, twisted sex victims, brawling cinema...
Reported Engaged. Howard O. Kinsey, 27, famed tennis-player, member of the U. S. 1924 successful Davis Cup Team; to Fraulein Cecile Aussem, 18, his pupil at St. Cloud, France...
...international hard-court tennis championships at St. Cloud, France, lasted a fortnight. As the finals approached, the temper of the crowd sizzled at fever heat, the umpires' decisions became erratic, the serves of William T. Tilden II of the U. S. hissed like rockets, and although his nerves were beginning to crack, it seemed inevitable that he would win the singles championship...