Word: mohawked
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...afternoon last month behind the New York Central's westbound Commodore Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson...
...schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001...
...nearly 300 years since a Jesuit priest named Isaac Jogues set out from Orleans, France to win North American Indians for Christ. He made some progress among the sedentary Hurons, at the price of hate and fear from the warlike Iroquois. One day in 1642 a band of Mohawk Iroquois caught him by the St. Lawrence with some Huron converts. They took him to their village in what is now New York State, amusing themselves along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after...
...blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with...