Word: igloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flushing, N. Y., Deputy Health Commissioner John Grimley ordered evicted Eskimo Robert Mayokok, his wife, four children, from a World's Fair igloo. Reason: the igloo is an exhibit, not a domicile...
Armchair travelers last week could go orchid hunting in South American jungles river hunting in Tibet, spend a winter in a jampacked Eskimo igloo, or the rest of the summer trying to absorb a fraction of the facts packed into the new Guide to Alaska, latest of the Federal Writers' Project series...
...field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq, he lived for six months as a member of the Eskimo community, records his observations of life in a crowded igloo in a 349-page book, whose footnotes and appendices are often more exciting than the rather disjointed text...
...them via Rudolf Island to the Pole itself, recording the weird tracery of the shifting ice pack as it appears from the air. At the Pole it shows the comrades jubilant, efficient, comfortable. They brush teeth, sluice bearded faces in the angled brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under...
This minuscule exhortation caused a flutter of official concern and unofficial merriment in Washington. An uninhibited artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid...