Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...
...political situation just outside Eden was very simple. There were only two favorite sons, Cain and Abel, and one got the other's scalp. It has never been so simple in Indiana. There have been from primeval times many great sons?always more than there was room for in one little state?and one took another's scalp only to have his own taken in turn, and that is part of the reason why the white settlers got the state so readily. But the coming of the whites did not change conditions much...
...four Dartmouth victories have been scored in the past two years, and in the three games that have been played between the two Universities since the resumption of play after the ten year split that began in 1912, the Crimson can boast but one green scalp, that from the tomahawk of Owen in 1922. Both verdicts since then have gone to the invaders...
...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
Should any member of a tribe fall by the wayside through lack of endurance his own fellow tribesmen would scalp him for bringing disgrace to them by his weakness. Many times these so called lacrosse games ended up with the use of the bow and arrow or tomahawk, especially when they were closely contested. In some cases, it is said, the head of a white man was used as the ball...