Word: ojibway
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...From the old Ojibway scholar-Ernest Hemingway," wrote the author himself, inscribing a first-edition copy of The Torrents of Spring to Dr. Don Carlos Guffey, the obstetrician who twice officiated as Hemingway became a Papa. In one of two copies of The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway noted for Dr. Guffey that "the first draft of this book was commenced on my birthday-July 21 in Madrid and it was finished September 6 of the same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable...
...Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology and various other authorities back up TIME'S translation of the Ojibway word ogontz (variants: ogans, ogah) as "pickerel'"' or "walleyed pike." Despite its name, this is a very respectable fish...
...favorite relaxation is hunting and fishing trips to Alaska and Canada, where Indian guides call him Captain Ogontz (Ojibway for wall-eyed pike). So far, motherly Mrs. Wood has blocked the General's every attempt to smuggle into his study a stuffed trophy of the chase. Other hobbies: riding his Arabian horse Kebar in the early mornings, driving his Ford sedan to his office at breakneck speed, and playing bridge, a game in which he invariably overbids, and into which he invariably plunges with his favorite expression: "Let's charge...
...last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured in Buckingham Palace before Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, stalked out of BBC's studios rather than submit to censorship of his remarks...
Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey...