Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood understands these figures, for Hollywood is still primarily interested in grosses. So is De Mille. That's why he went into the business and made his first picture (The Squaw Man) in 1913. A frustrated actor, son of successful and knowing show folk, he had already had his artistic wings clipped-by David Belasco, who purchased and took credit for a play (The Return of Peter Grimm) which De Mille wrote...
Died. Edwin Milton Royle, 79, veteran actor and dramatist (The Squaw Man, The Unwritten Law); in Manhattan...
...corner of the Auditorium, a physician who studies Indian medicine had brought along a billowing squaw, complete in deerskin dress and feathered crown. In the rear, a couple of muscular orthopedists patiently kneaded the spines of lopsided patients, naked except for brief trunks. Other side shows showed how to resuscitate the newborn, diagnose female sterility, guard the health of airplane pilots, bandage broken legs, banish early syphilis in five days...
When they had finished, Charley systematically destroyed the sand painting, for it would have been bad medicine to leave it as it was. The destruction took 40 minutes. With the help of Mary Peshlakai, a Navajo squaw who had come with them from Window Rock, Ariz, to weave blankets for the Museum's Indian exhibit, Charley and the Short Man's Grandson muttered, groaned, sprinkled corn pollen over the figures they had painted. Then they stood to one side and chanted. It was not funny. It was moving. Still chanting, Charley carefully shuffled over the design, destroying...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...