Word: lappish
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...deer were not quite alone in the strange world of ships, railroads and medical inspection. Someone watched over them. Attending to their simple diet and deerish comfort was one Jenferksen, General Dahl's Lappish batman (see cut). He would stay with them until, after 28 days of quarantine, the deer were exposed to the stares of Zoo-goers-a token of Norway's gratitude for Britain...
...Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples, for according to the laws of heredity two and two can often make five. The subject of race sounds much more sensible treated biologically rather than politically...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
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