Word: powwow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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York County medical men were planning last week for some action to check "hexers" and "powwow doctors." Inspection of the Pennsylvania statutes revealed a law passed against witchcraft in 1861. The new legislature is to be asked to make it more stringent. According to Coroner L.U. Zech last week, three-fourths of the 150,000 people of York County believe to some extent in witchcraft...
Julian Sorell Huxley, biologist-writer grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...
...three days the reservation Indians debated in powwow. Then they voted to abandon Christianity, to revive the cult of the Great Spirit...
...sudden mood of loquacity which had come over him at the sight of Secretary of the Interior Hubert S. Work. They were met in Lawrence, Kan., last week, where the loquacious Chief Two Guns White Calf had led 26 of his Blackfeet tribesmen from Montana for a polytribal "powwow" at famed Haskell Institute, which had a new football stadium to dedicate.† Secretary Work conversed briefly with Mr. White Calf, then went along to lecture to the students of the University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, overlooking the town...
Alleging that white men had made new regulations for Indians in British Columbia, most westerly Canadian province, a powwow of 31 Chiefs at Shuswap sent Chief William Pierrish, Basil David and Johnnie Chillichitsa to lodge a protest with "the grand Chief whose wigwam is Buckingham Palace." Last week they arrived in London and set about securing an audience with "the biggest Chief of all." The Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these...