Word: wigwam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...befits an evening of fun, Fiorello! portrays a crusader without ever adopting the tone of a crusade. While pumping lead into ward politics and taking potshots at the Tammany wigwam, it pokes the right touch of fun at Fiorello's own brandished tomahawk. Winningly played by Tom Bosley, La Guardia proves the more engaging for not being too lovable, the more enlivening for not being too reasonable. And as a period piece that comes up with, among other things, battered Pathe news shots, Fiorello! often has an earned nostalgia...
...Cannon was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she attended school with her future husband. She crossed the country to enter Radcliffe in 1899. "I used to tell my classmates I was born in a wigwam with a buffalo nodding at the door," she recalls. Active in "The Idlers," a dramatic society, and in the Philosophy Club, she threw herself delightedly into a wide variety of courses. "I chose the man and not the subject. That way I became remarkably inspired...
From the lowly wigwam to the Manhattan ziggurat, what are the "Seven Wonders of American Architecture?" This week 500 leading U.S. architects, polled for nominations, made a provocative set of choices. Tied in first place...
When Denver Tiemaker Phil Greinetz lost his best weavers to the armed forces during World War II, he hired elderly women for his little (20 looms) Los Wigwam Weavers. They were fine workers, but tired easily. At their suggestion, he experimented with 15-minute rest breaks morning and afternoon and provided coffee. When Greinetz found that workers who took the break produced more ties, he made it compulsory. But since wages were frozen, he could not pay his employees for the rest time. The employees did not care; as production soared, earnings on piece rates went up to $1.02 hourly...
Beantown supports two major league baseball clubs, and by mid-summer this becomes a truly courageous undetaking. The denizens of Braves Field are known as the Braves; sometimes they are called the Tribe and their hangout, the Wigwam. The Braves are located along Commonwealth Avenue, so--when they are playing at home--they are within walking distance of the Square. The Boston Americans, the Red Sox, are situated at Fenway Park in Kenmore Square...