Word: ona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point of View. In Plainview, Tex., after she was ticketed for backing out of a parking space into an oncoming car, Housewife Sarah Ona Baxter told the judge: "I think it's a crying shame that you give me a ticket and not the man I hit. He could see me backing out a lot better than I could...
...Died. Ona Munson, 46, onetime musical comedy ingenue (No, No, Nanette) and cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan...
...Married. Ona Munson, 43, cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); and Eugene Berman, 50, Russian-born painter and stage designer; she for the second time, he for the first; in Composer Igor Stravinsky's home in Los Angeles...
...With Ona help, he laid a trail across Fuego's biggest island and established a large sheep ranch in the heart of Ona territory. In his years of camping out with the Indians, he learned more about them than any other white man. The Ona way of life, says Bridges, was "communistic"; there were no chiefs. A man owned his wives (usually two, one much older than himself and one much younger), his weapons and his clothing; he spent his time hunting or feuding with other tribes while his women fished, cooked, reared the children. The Ona believed...
...long while Author Bridges thought his savage friends believed in the spirits they imitated in their crude rituals; but the Ona opened his eyes by initiating him into the tribe's all-male lodge. There he heard that once upon a time the women had ruled the tribe with witchcraft, until the men, in desperation, had banded together and killed all the women. To forestall any attempt by growing girls to reestablish female tyranny, the men had "invented a new branch of Ona demonology: a collection of strange beings . . . who would take visible shape" and scare the women into...