Word: indians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he had picked up while trading in Barbados. One of the slaves, an ageless woman named Tituba, became the darling of Salem's teen-age girls. In a stern Puritan community that shunned amusement, Tituba's stealthy demonstrations of West Indian voodoo could be wonderfully thrilling. But to children like Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail the shows also brought spasms of guilt, for they were convinced they were trafficking with the devil...
Died. Charles Round Low Cloud, 76, Indian columnist since 1919 for the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal (circ. 5,503), who "thought in Winnebago and wrote in English" and whose punctuation-less comments* on current events were reprinted by many a daily U.S. newspaper; in Back River Falls...
...having an Indian for U.S. President: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere." On the weather: "The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy...
...partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...
...partially bilingual paper. He sprinkles Spanish words through the English news stories, even uses them in headlines (VAUGHAN'S AMIGOS BLABBING). He thinks it a good day when he can run on Page One "a political scandal, an archeological discovery, a sculptor's prize, and an Indian fracas-all local...