Word: siwash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hypothetical case which Justice Alyce decides, modeled after the facts of the Gooch case, is called Ex parte Snatch. Oscar Snatch, a candidate for the senior class presidency of Siwash College, situated ten miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying...
...eleven foot totem pole effigy of Atlao, nicknamed "King Siwash," nineteenth century chief of the Ahousat Indian Tribe, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was placed on public view Saturday in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University...
...Good Old Siwash...
Chief Atlao, alias Siwash, was noted for his prowess as a whaler, the claim being asserted that one summer he brought in five of the creatures. He is represented, with full Russian moustachies, as holding a replica of the cedar ball which the chief used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...
...Rowland Angell: As I meet American college graduates, nothing is more depressing than to remark the astonishing number who give absolutely no suggestion of intelligent acquaintance with anything whatever outside the range of business and sport. Indeed, did they not assure you that they were sons of Dear Old Siwash, you would never of your own initiative have made that inference...