Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine-inning-tilt with the Boston Braves may be listed for the University diamond men this spring, it was reported last night. The National League batters routed Harvard last year in a 9 to 3 practice skirmish in the Tribal wigwam...
...quickly served with notices to depart. Later the hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted the wigwam and the can-opener is more potent than the Colt...
...both the swearing-in and the scything were last week termed methods of self-exploitation. Elbowing through a roomful of Tammany leaders at the 14th St. Wigwam, Nelson P. Cook, a little, old, white-haired neighbor of Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader George W. Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural...
...among other sites, a spot where Indians once caught eagles by lowering a brave down the face of a cliff in a rabbit-net made of red milkweed fibre. Down the Canada de las Uvas, (little canon of the grapes) one Angel Cuilpe, aged 104, showed him traces of wigwam towns; in Palm Canyon, one Juanito Razon, over 100, guided to ancient water holes, painted rocks, caves, sacred stones, magic springs...
Alleging that white men had made new regulations for Indians in British Columbia, most westerly Canadian province, a powwow of 31 Chiefs at Shuswap sent Chief William Pierrish, Basil David and Johnnie Chillichitsa to lodge a protest with "the grand Chief whose wigwam is Buckingham Palace." Last week they arrived in London and set about securing an audience with "the biggest Chief of all." The Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these...