Word: wampum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening wore on, the invaders war-danced, tom-tommed, and marched through the Yard waving torches. Their signs said, "We wampum injun rights in Stoughton...
HANOVER, October 24--The Daily Dartmouth hotshots hare-footed it back to the New Hampshire woods today with only their join cloths and wampum belts left from Saturday's crushing defeat to the CRIMSON...
...immediately rented for an annual sum of 30 pounds. After eight years of difficulties with the concession, the two gentlemen who had rented it surrendered their title, explaining to the Court that what little payment actually was made by passengers was in "refuse, unwrought, broken, unstrung, and unmerchantable peag wampum." Later in the same year President Dunster informed the Court that "all the bad and unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the college treasury from ferry toll." Nevertheless, Harvard held on to the concession and its returns until 1785, when the first toll-bridge across...
...saleslady cited yesterday a municipal regulation more vigorously enforced than the standing five-wampum-belt fine for kissing the wife on the Sabbath. The law makes it a misdemeanor to negotiate pavement sales without a license...
...evening wore on, the war-painted invaders organized a war dance to the throbbing of tom-toms and marched through the Yard, waving torches, chanting "ugh, ugh, ugh," and bearing signs reading "We Wampum Injun rights in Stoughton...