Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage conditions are among the most unusual features of the tribal life. All a man has to do to obtain a wife is to present her parents with enough goats. The number of his wives is limited only by his wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...
...conflict between the ancient tribal religion and the modern manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from...
...camped one night in the home of one of these Indians, which had evidently been recently abandoned by its owner for no reason that we could see Curious as to why he had left, we learned from other Indians in the vicinity that his wife had just died at the age of 104, and that it is the custom, when a Seminole Indian loses his wife, for him to move elsewhere...
...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, made known that he and his wife would soon sail forth on a fishing cruise. The Pinchot ambition: to catch a mammoth manta ("sea devil") such as Explorer-Author William Beebe captured in the vicinity of the Galapagos Islands...