Word: scalpless
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...goes the drum, "De-de-Bom, de-de-Bom!" Strong, bearded men quiver as their fingernails are extracted. "Bom!" goes the drum. Grotesquely scalpless women shriek, moan. "Bom!" goes the drum. Half-clad dancers leap in the fire's garish flicker. Seventy-five years ago such a picture was common around Cheyenne, Wyoming, which was later named for these super-redskins. Last week, U. S. Senator Francis Emroy Warren, 82, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last governor of Wyoming territory, first governor of Wyoming state, rancher, realtor, arose from his Cheyenne verandah, strode down the asphalt street. White-haired...
...sponsors of a twentieth century civilization? Or will my colleague interpose that we have such a phrase for mere aesthetic embellishment? And again, if by Americans he means the real indigenous Americans, the Indians, who wielded the tomahawk with a flendish delight, prancing about their scalpless victims about to be roasted at the stake, then we concur in chorus that "the greater their anguish the greater their pleasure"; but that age has passed. If men progress mentally, culturally, and spiritually, then I am convinced we have left far behind the stage when human pleasure increases directly with the increase...
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