Word: professor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrunken head swinging from his watch-chain which arrests one when speaking with Professor Jason Quaeritor, Harvard's leading authority on the Jivarro Indians of the Orinoco Valley. Professor Quaeritor is well known as Harvard's Malinowski and Margaret Mead, combined into one, as it were. He patted the the miniscule head and took a deep breath on a blow gun he has rigged up as a pipe...
Listening to Professor Quaeritor, one almost imagines himself in Jivarro territory. Books on sex habits of the Mayas are alternated with relics of pre-Columban civilizations. Bamboo furniture decorates his office in Widener 5000. Quaeritor got a Harvard Scholarship, the regional jungle grant, and came to Harvard in 1912. Since then he has spent his life commuting between Cambridge and his beloved jungle...
...asked Professor Quaeritor what attracted him to the study of such a fierce group. He pulled a petrified tarantula from his back pocket--"My lucky charm," he explained. "Well, chiefly it's their marital system. You see," he chuckled, "the brother in the Jivarro tribe has with his sister the jus primae noctis, as it were. Enforced incest, a droll habit, you know...
...Professor Quaeritor confesses to having a wife and family, of sorts. "My wife's name is also Jane--a coincidence, you know. We both indulge in an extracurricular liking for Chilean Dixieland; I always go to Mahogany Hall when they feature the Valparaiso Stompers...
...oscilllations of the suspended head came to a halt, I realized that the interview was over. I thanked Professor Quaeritor, and upon leaving he rubbed his spider, "Don't call me Quaeritor, the natives...