Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, last week, a Negro boy tossed a rock at Helen and Beatrice Keifer, 21 and 23 years old, white. They reprimanded him. He sulked, dashed away, told his tribe that he had been whipped. Forthwith, hulking Negresses and little pickaninnies bestirred themselves; produced knives, whips, razors; set out to reprimand the Misses Keifer. In a restaurant the Misses Keifer were finishing their evening meal. The Negresses patted their weapons, waited until their victims came upon the street. The Misses Keifer emerged, saw, sprinted. They were overtaken-whips lashed across their backs-black paws ripped their clothing, tore at their...
...though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised among "that prairie tribe, conglomerate of Dutchman, Bohunk, Railroad Irish and Indiana Yankee" in Nebraska and Kansas...
...town which has recently raised the visceral tension of the righteous about once a month. That town is Cicero, Ill., a Utopian nook for the twins. Here on the western fringe of Chicago is a polyglot population of 62,000-Irishmen, Italians, Sicilians, Slavs and many another tribe. The Western Electric Co. employs thousands of them; other industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians and raucous Irishmen playfully squirt machine guns at each other. On other days they...
...clay pot filled with earth from a slain chief's grave lay in a pit above which the woman was stretched on a hide; the witch-man leaped high, making medicine for war while tom-toms rustled and torches veered. A chief had been murdered; now the tribe, protected by strong medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely in a line through the jungle; no spear could wound, no knife had power to part their skin, so potent was the medicine the witch-man made for them...
...raging Tribe their lawless Games repeat...