Word: eskimoes
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...Gleam. In Chicago, President John Holmes of Swift & Co. promised that the postwar world would have an eskimo pie with a shatterproof coat...
...radio characters (they are among his mother's best Bloomington friends). He is an incorrigible practical joker. He once named all of NBC's vice presidents in his script as a gang of jailbirds, and is given to telling strangers that his handsome wife is three-quarters Eskimo, allergic to heat...
July 5-Medicine. Cheechako is not Eskimo for "tenderfoot." It's Chinook...
TIME, July 5, p. 40, says that the name of Dr. Good's boat Cheechako is Eskimo for "tenderfoot." Right you are about tenderfoot, but not Eskimo. Cheechako is pure Chinook Jargon; chee meaning new, recent, or just now, while chako means to come, or arrive, or approach...
...Through the years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome daughter to play...