Word: wampum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Oklahoma who showed up at Plymouth, Mass., to the considerable wrath of an authentic New England Indian who felt that his offshore rights had been poached) had been friendly, but among the company of the Mayflower II there was no Thanksgiving. The difficulty: a falling-out, mostly over wampum, among the Pilgrim Fathers. The tourist turnout was below expectations, and Captain Alan Villiers was kept busy soothing his crewmen. There were complaints that some of them had not been paid. In London, Lloyds Underwriter Felix Fenston, who had ballasted the project with $98,000, jumped ship because the Mayflower...
...picture is over? You can bet your week's wampum it isn't. That Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long, and Realist Disney seems determined to make the moviegoer jolt, bolt or Colt his way over every dad-burned mile...
...interesting comparison with today's high-powered fund drives, were used to raise money. Harvard had no endowment at the time, but the General Court of Massachusetts granted the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry to the College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year, mostly in fake wampum. More money came from gifts and, sometimes, from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire teaching staff...
...Mills uncovers some pretty startling social phenomena. The reader will hear that the rich have more money than other people and so can afford better schools, longer vacations and more luxury all around. Old money, what the sociologist in John Marquand's Point of No Return called "mellow wampum," isn't good because it's too snobbish and irresponsible. New money isn't good because it has to be acquired by means that would horrify a hard-working sociologist. Mills does not say how much money a man may accumulate and still stay morally decent...
...would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made a note to this effect. It is rather mean to have him put up half the scratch or wampum for this property and then have it altogether attributed to his partner...