Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your review of the film Ramona (TIME, Oct. 5), you use the word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
Although your reviewer probably used the word because it was spoken by Señora Moreno (Pauline Frederick) in the film, I believe it cannot rightly be applied to a California Indian woman. Certainly its use is resented and regarded as an insult by Indians of many tribes...
...Nominee-husband, has made not one public campaign speech. Once or twice she has spoken off the record at small gatherings of women's clubs in Kansas, but until last week it appeared that the campaign of 1936 was to pass into history without her contributing a single word to the record. Not to be completely left out, however, she attended a meeting last week in Topeka of the Independent Coalition of American Women and there she told a story...
...Tunis seen no reason why football players should not be paid their due salary, and insists that if the word amateurism is to mean anything, then the amateur teams must play in their own league, Professional teams, or those who claim they are amateurs but are really pro or semi-pro, should openly confess that they hire players. Games could then he played in a professional league. "For God's sake, a little logic." is the parting pies...
This field recommends itself for its simplicity and ability to carry on in the open. Whose word would tell whether Eliot's Five Foot Shelf being escorted away under an arm belonged to, was being borrowed, or stolen by the owner of that arm? To stop everybody seen with a book is practically impossible...