Word: crows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Shuh-shee-ahsh, 68, also known as Curley, a Crow Indian scout, the sole survivor of the Custer massacre, of cancer of the liver, at the Crow Agency, Mont. He was buried on the Custer Battlefield...
...overcame then? Who found, of a fortunate Saturday, that that night they should repeat their performances for fame and a gleaming prize? One from Manhattan?the East-West Players in The Little Stone House, by George Calderon. They of White Plains who put their trust in The Crow's Nest, by William Manly. And the Garden Players of Forest Hills in Robert Courtney's The Clock. These were the victors three, where all strove with honor...
Post: "The inhabitants of the British West Indies, of course, are eager for annexation to the United States. Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands as 'Haul down the flag...
Secretary of War Weeks: "A pension was granted to a survivor of the ill-fated command of General Custer. He is Shuh-Shee-Absh, a Crow Indian, who was an Indian Scout for the General at the time of the massacre of June...
Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...