Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...
...When they did not explode, a fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...
...Pittsburgh, Pa., one William Nauer, husky Lithuanian, had by last week washed 500,000 trays since last August. Object: to discover the effects of soap, water and dishcloths on the surfaces of the trays, a new product of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing...
...seven languages-German, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Yiddish, Lettish, Esthonian-the Germans posted their proclamations, but Grischa could read not one of any seven, and in a few hours he was imprisoned again. For, the newest ordinance read that in the name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed-dour example to weary-hearted German soldiers. Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage. His peasant simplicity won belief in the hearts of guards, officers, and even old Commander von Lychow...
...flagship of the Lithuanian Navy is a chugging, wallowing armed minesweeper, the President Smetona. Last week Lithuanians were shamefaced and vexed when a pirate ship, the Hassan Birr, which has been terrorizing Baltic seacoast villages for over a month, escaped for the eleventh time, after being sighted, fired at and chased by the wallowing President Smetona. Fisherfolk who have been piratically molested by the Hassan Birr describe her crew as a rollicking, unblood-thirsty gang of Finns, Poles, Germans, Swedes led by a fierce red-bearded swashbuckler who claims to be a Lithuanian...