Word: squaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brave said he had to leave his squaw at Smith because of the Harvard parietal rules. "Heap fine women she is too, but holy-smoke lead me to Radcliffe...
Last week, in the first definitive Boone biography, Editor-Biographer Bakeless appeared to have the story straight at last, but the result is far from being a debunking job. Biographer Bakeless drops a number of legends (including one that Boone lived with a Shawnee squaw), moderates a number of storybook feats. But in the main his 480-page dead-eye biography portrays Boone as a deserving hero. Not even adolescents will be disillusioned by the true story of Boone's escape from Chief Blackfish, his wily strategy in the siege of Boonesborough, his exploits as an officer...
...Union Pacific reminds veteran cinemaddicts of many another picture, that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...
...reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw, and papoose is worth $28,000, mostly in standing timber- nevertheless did not turn down last week's windfall...
...Galleries. Durand-Ruel went down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw from Cochiti, Tonita Pena...