Word: tribes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gourmands saw further possibilities in the impending war with an upland tribe whose three offences were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had rescued a beautiful damsel from suicide, loved her, and carried her to his secret cave...
...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...
Francisco came potent Archbishop Edward J. Hanna; from New Zealand came Mita Taupopoki, chief of the Arawa tribe of Maoris, once the most warlike tribe in New Zealand; from Manhattan came Bishop John J. Dunn, who brought greetings, regrets from Patrick Cardinal Hayes; from many another spot came many another layman & divine. As they came to Chicago in 1926 and will go to Carthage, North Africa, in 1930, so they flocked to the 29th Eucharistic Congress in Australia...
Europe: "We are now definitely in the age of the chauffeur and the Negro dance. ... The American ideal of service ... coincides, psychologically, with the norm of every negroid tribe. ... To Europe, and to Europe alone, has the task been entrusted to guard the sacred fire of the spirit from extinction during the long night of the spirit whicli now lies before mankind...
Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...