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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...
...Harvard-Dartmouth athletic feud will be reopened this afternoon when its Crimson will oppose the Hanover name at 4 o'clock on the Soldiers Field diamond. Eight times since 1916 has the Green carried off a Crimson baseball scalp and Captain Hammond's team, by the law of averages, is slated to register the first University win over the Hanover outfit...
...insidious individual who backs theatrical productions and swindles big business men as a relaxation. In his garden, country club, harem, is a variety of unfortunate and very lovely young women who have presumably come there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor is copyrighted and its use forbidden, no matter how great the temptation). That's where the man from Syracuse comes in. The soul-scalper is played by Rockliffe Fellowes in a manner to reinforce the growing judgment that...
BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?Satire mingled with rollicking burlesque, as the scalp of the tired business man is lifted and the inner workings of his brain revealed...
...real reason for getting rid of him was to pay off old scores. A man of Millerand's forceful character makes many enemies, especially in politics, and those enemies were, according to report, determined to scalp him. There was no reason to doubt that this...