Word: headdresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maple Syrup. By mid-evening Editor Chappie's ceremony had turned into a bear hug. Big Chief Me-Gee-See, crowned with a magnificent yellow, red, white and brown headdress, stood red-faced and short of breath in a deafening din of drums, jangling sleighbells and good-will whoops. One by one, the Chippewas stomped and howled past him to bestow gifts - a buckskin vest and a beaded belt (which he put on), a huge bow and quiver of arrows (one got stuck in his headdress and had to be extricated by a helpful squaw), wild rice, maple syrup...
...loose basketball to attend meetings, sport events and dinners, perform good deeds and hear complaints. Borrowing from one of his political idols, the late Fiorello La Guardia, he would don a whitewing's uniform and sweep a street or peer owlishly from a Toledo newspaper in Indian headdress. When Michael of Rumania stopped at Toledo three years ago, the ex-king remarked with amusement that everybody called the mayor "Mike.'' "If more people called you Mike," replied Di Salle, "you might still be king...
...cast soon slipped back into the well-worn groove The Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsy and Kolomna, who for many years has been rendering to commissars the things that are God's, described how Simon Legree (the Americans) behave in Korea. Impressive in a black robe and white headdress, the Metropolitan told his hearers that U.S. soldiers had killed from 200,000 to 400,000 Korean civilians. He even told how they did it: "They force wet leathers on their victims. These jackets get tight when they dry, and cause people incredible pain. [There are] mass executions, crucifixions, taking skulls...