Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DeMille's 68 movies in the 36 years since he made the first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) have cost an approximate total of $33 million (not including advertising expenses). Thus far, the first 67 have grossed $562 million...
Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
...Squaw Grass. Such biological warfare annoyed not only the Dutch, but also Mrs. Frank Ball, representative of the Virginia State Federation of Garden Clubs, who is convinced that without Dutch bulbs, U.S. gardens will degenerate into "patches of broom sage and squaw grass." Cried Mrs. Ball: "Are we going ... to deny [the Dutch] the opportunity to earn in trade the very dollars we are called upon to give them...
...some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded (according to tribal tradition) by a squaw who had once been befriended by some white trappers...
When Cecil B. DeMille went to California in 1913 and rented half a barn in which to film The Squaw Man, there was a village there called Hollywood. But none of the innocents who lived in the village dreamed, in their wildest nightmares, how radically Mr. DeMille and his followers would alter the community...