Word: manitou
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before all the men for four days. They started to do so, but an old woman spoiled the atonement by throwing a blanket...
...That night"-Willie translated-"the manitou came again to the chief and . . . ordered, 'Twelve babies you bring in. Those old men sing to those babies and keep on singing to those babies until those babies starve to death. At that point you fellows quit singing...
...modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting in the '20's and became good so fast that Parisian night clubs like the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Jockey and the Manitou would have nothing but Hiler decorations...
...hurricanes, in 1869 and 1913. Winked at by sailors on the snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote a Great Lakes novel (The Indian Drum) whose authentic chill may well outlive the dangers...
...Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...