Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time, so long ago, a welter of story and folk lore has sprung up around the winding river. Along its banks a unique civilization has worked out its development and on its current has floated "the finest calling in the world." That civilization and that calling have been passed on unimpaired to generations that would otherwise have forgotten them in the turbulence of their own existence--passed on chiefly by one writer. His name he gained from the river itself, for once he had found his living there. He had heard the man at the lead call...
Died. Edward J. Moriarity, 66, old-time Yale barkeep; of heart disease aggravated by corpulence; in New Haven. In "Tuttle's," his pungent stube behind a cracker & cheese store, Yale undergraduates for over 40 years quaffed beer, sang songs, learned lore. There was written, and there first sung by Ed Moriarity, "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding...
...Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...
...enemies' territory passed without hitch or hobble from hostile tribes. On his way Explorer Thomas busied himself with collecting flora, fauna, Arab chants, cephalic measurements of different tribes, superb photographs of the desert and its denizens. Though he embroiders his narrative with tales of the desert and its lore, the author's thoughts, like his camels, found food scanty in the sands. Written in a style reminiscent of Charles M. Doughty's masterpiece. Tourist Thomas' magnificently produced book (compared with Travels in Arabia Desertary} seems the record of a somewhat barren scientific tour de force...
Perhaps because of his Pocahontas ancestry, Governor Murray has always had a deep and abiding interest and affection for Indians. Settling at Tishomingo, he became the tribal attorney for the Chickasaws. He studied their treaties, laws and customs, collected nearly a thousand rare books on Indian lore;-another manifestation of his innate scholarliness. Today he is an authority on the history and habits of the Oklahoma Indian. For a wife he picked Mary Alice Hearrell, half-white, half-indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name...