Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that you have come among us and into our camp. . . . Our fathers and our chiefs, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, may have made mistakes, but their hearts were brave and strong, their purposes were honest and noble. They have long gone to their Happy Hunting Ground, and we call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow...
From the first, the Japanese delegation saw the futility of discussion under such circumstances; and Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito, Chief Japanese Delegate, accordingly did little more throughout the Parley than to make well-meant efforts to draw the U. S. and British delegations together on some common ground (for example, his idea of a "naval holiday" during which no more ships would be built by any power...
...proposals of the U. S. and British delegations at the Three Power Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) seemed last week like the statements of a man and wife who love each other at heart but have decided to get a divorce on the ground called "incompatibility of temperament...
...about with her short dark hair in a bandanna and her legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer her checks to regular currency and seldom cash them, bringing old ones in to be rewritten after perhaps...
...three cinema cranks ground steadily on, behind the refreshment table...