Word: squaw
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...Indian cemetery of Yellow Jacket, Utah, Lloyd Cantsee and Truman Hatch, Piutes, dug up a superstition supposed to be dead and a squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...
...Century he has devoted himself to portraiture and figure groups, often using for models the members of his numerous family. Possibly the most noteworthy, certainly the most celebrated, of his 47 paintings which hung at the Grand Central last week was Mourning Her Brave: the figure of a squaw, standing in snow at the edge of a cliff. Birds circle in the grey sky over her head, the snow stretches upward behind her over rocks, she raises her wide shoe-button eyes into a sky that is empty of all things except snow...
...road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat...
...does the United States, and perhaps no nation has, since the warnings of Washington, turned so resolutely away from its serious consideration Let us remember the counsel of the Yellow Knife Indian-'It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the squaw casts away her papoose...
...Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw as majestic as himself...