Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winsor Ives made urgent repre- sentations to the Governor of Nayarit and the military authorities of the State asking speedy punishment of the bandit criminals. He also wired Teacher Anderson's relatives informing them of her serious con- dition and subsequent death. Then he reported the outrage to Wash- ington...
...Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...
...result, the stories are good stories. The circus people love and hate, give and steal, swear and sing with inflections nearly as much their own as Mr. Tully's. If the real Moss-Haired girl, half Swedish, quarter Indian and quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube...
...CLIFFORD Spokane, Wash...
Sirs: I note in TIME for June 13, 1927, that Reader A. B. Maloire, Chehalis, Wash., is of the opinion that "More Humor" would not be amiss in your magazine. I believe, as I am sure many others of your readers believe, that we buy TIME primarily and principally for the news it gives us, in the way it is given to us, and not for amusement. If Reader Maloire wants humor, there arc plenty of magazines which devote themselves in part, or in whole, to humor. Let him read the humor magazines and leave our newsmagazine...