Word: hoopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mythological panorama of his people's fate, was promised magical powers to save. He was carried to the centre of the world ("anywhere is the centre of the world") on the top of Harney Peak in the black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering...
Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...
...story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
...latest volume the author of a series of stories about Harvard has assembled a collection of trivia on subjects ranging from African hotels and earthquakes in Mexico to Theodore Roosevelt and the hoop--skirt. to the average reader they will appear as nothing more than a few sketches which Mr. Flanders might have discover by accident in a forgotten drawer of his desk then sent off to the publisher in a moment of weakness. To most of us they are lacking in interest: one might as well read Christopher Motley's collected essays and be done with them...
Henry A. Roemer, president of Continental Steel Corp. (Kokomo, Ind.), was elected president of Sharon (Pa.) Steel Hoop Co. Past-president Severn P. Ker becomes chairman...