Word: squaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Squaw...
...Gonave (though Wirkus did not know it) was a socialistic matriarchate, ruled by Head Queen Ti Memenne, fat, squaw-like but executive. Under her were various sub-queens who presided over societies "which were actually labor unions." Ti Memenne took a great liking to Wirkus, treated him like a son, and used all her considerable influence to back up his authority. Another thing Wirkus did not know was that he shared the name "Faustin" with one of Haiti's black emperors, Faustin Soulouque...
...Alliance of America he offered in 1930 three prizes, $1,500, $750, $500 for small sculpture "typically American in theme," suitable for reproducing in Rosenthal china and by sculptors living in the U. S. First prize last week went to Atanas Katchamakoff for an amusing little Papoose and Squaw. Simple in detail, it will be inexpensive to cast...
...connotation is animalian, however, for among its titular governors are a Shepherd (President), a Boy (Vice President), Collies (Masters of the private Gambols). Most members are professionals, but there is a sprinkling recruited from the Army, the Navy, the Good Fellows. Acting Shepherd is Playwright Edwin Milton Royle (The Squaw Man, Launcelot and Elaine). Last week he and The Lambs Council were faced with the problem of raising enough ready cash to keep the club running. A second mortgage for $100,000 on the club property seemed the most expedient way out of The Lambs' difficulty. Immediate cause...
...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...