Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
Julie Pappan had an Indian allotment near Topeka and upon it Charles Curtis was born, nearly 68 years ago.* His grandfather Louis Pappan, was a French trader. His father, of old New England stock, had roamed out to Kansas in 1856 and returned there after becoming a captain in the Civil War. While his father was away at war, small Charles Curtis lived with his Grandmother Pappan...
...collection, called "Karuta", were probably first introduceed into that country by the Portuguese navigators of the Middle Ages. The other Oriental games, including the playing sticks of Korea and the paper discs and dominoes of China, are a distinct species from those of the West. The East Indian cards are likewise different, consisting mostly of pictures of the various incarnations of the Hindu gods
...Crimson took it in its stride, The Dartmouth took it hard. The score was indeterminate, the game inconsequential the net results of inestimable value. It has been rumored abroad, and even in this country, that the titanic struggle would not be staged in the Stadium, and Lo, the poor Indian, it wasn't. It was staged, nevertheless, in the midst of an inordinate gloom. Clouds hung low, spirits lower; the results were utter depth. There was no farthest south...
Today in particular is the Vagabond ready to burst forth. Late last night he disturbed the occupants of a certain dormitory with his efforts to master the war whoop of a Dartmouth Indian on the march, so that he might be polite when he greets his New Hampshire friends. And his spirit is so buoyant that he expects to get his quota of enjoyment out of his Section 17 perch in the Stadium. To all luckier and less lucky brethren he wishes a strong weekend...