Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Capt. Wilhelm Mueller, 63, of the Hamburg American liner Reliance, friend of countless West Indian tourists; of heart failure; on shipboard, returning to New York from a cruise to Iceland, Spitzbergen & the North Cape, during which he sent relief supplies to the Nobile expedition...
...listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions to Indian songs and finally operas, is rigid in his style. They ask: Can he adapt himself to popular sound-pictures; will he debase himself to commercialism? Few of them know that he lives in Hollywood...
...greatest of U. S. oil companies, Standard Oil of New Jersey. He carried a gun. But his friends were not alarmed. They recalled that Oilman Teagle and Oilman Deterding, mighty rivals, were yet friends. They remembered that Oilman Teagle had tried to be peacemaker in the recent Indian oil war between Royal Dutch and Standard Oil of New York. They guessed the two chiefs would discuss ways and means of persuading Soviet Russia to compensate U. S., British and Dutch companies for confiscated oil wells...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...