Word: indians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murdered and thrown into the Niagara River. They even produced a corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...
...Spanish conquistadores had always believed that somewhere in northeastern Peru lay the land of the Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...legends he heard about ixbut. There was the tall tale of a 60-year-old woman who had not borne a child for 18 years; when her daughter died in childbirth, she took ixbut and had no trouble nursing her grandchild. There was the even taller tale of an Indian father who took ixbut and nursed his motherless infant himself...
...onetime Elephant Boy, presiding over a whole jungleful of exotic fauna &. flora. He is especially fond of tigers, which he fondles like outsize tabby cats. He is on intimate terms with all the other jungle beasts and is determined to protect them from the wholesale poachings of a progressive Indian prince (Turhan Bey) in search...
...Indian Summer. In Menlo Park, Calif., Charles E. Brown, 82, had to call off his 62nd wedding-anniversary party when he came down with mumps...