Word: poses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared Putnam. "In dealing with the average type of native, the African for example a man may court the favor of the tribal chief by the judicious bestowal of a few trinkets which may take his fancy, and in return for which he will force his humble subjects to pose for photographs etc. But not so with the aborigine of New Guinea. His is a communistic society and he recognizes no will but his own. It is therefore necessary to please each individual and the number of mirrors, glass beads and other trinkets which must be carried is deplored...
...Cristobal, but along the railway, at various stops, men who had worked 20 years or more in the Canal Zone, looked at him intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang up Balboa. When his train reached Balboa, John F. Stevens, onetime chief engineer of the Panama Canal, was welcomed at the station by Colonel Meriweather Walker, Governor of the Canal Zone...
...second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue had cast...
...first subscribed, neither did I believe that your worthy newsmagazine would give me more than an interesting condensation of the in formation important in the day's news. But speaking of modern semi-miracles, I believe you should know of an instance which has transgressed your original pur pose. A busy, practical friend whom I esteem, had long since ceased to satisfy me that he still existed on this mundane sphere. But you induced me to take advantage of the offer to make a gift of TIME. So I sent you the name of my esteemed friend...
...militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this apostle of the corporeal should find how well the U. S. form repays its exploiters. Bernarr Macfadden got into publishing and fell among shrewd businessmen...