Word: algonquin
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...smoky Aleutian Islands. During ten summers Dr. Hrdlicka has rummaged around the islands, looking for traces of Mongolian wanderers. First great evidence for his theory turned up in 1931, when, on the island of Kodiak, he discovered a nest of long-headed skulls remarkably similar to those of Algonquin Indians. Since the longheads bore no resemblance to the roundheaded Eskimos and Aleuts who now live on the islands, Dr. Hrdlicka called them "pre-Aleuts...
...Town Crier, on the radio, he charmed with his anecdotes, pumped books he liked, made best-sellers of such works as James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Alexander Woollcott's While Rome Burns. As town wit, he sat far above the salt when the Hotel Algonquin's famed Round Table was the spawning ground of Manhattan sophisticates, has long terrorized his enemies with his thrusts, has served without pay as publicity agent for such other town wits as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman...
Finder was Judge William Johnson Graham of the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals, an experienced amateur archeologist who was probing the remains of the old Algonquin village of Patowoameke, from which the Potomac derives its name. When the skull fragments of the old Indian; perhaps a contemporary of John Smith and Pocahontas, were fitted together. Judge Graham gasped in astonishment: "Why, it's as big as a watermelon!" This was only mild hyperbole. The unknown Algonquin's cranial capacity was measured...
...your review of the film Ramona (TIME, Oct. 5), you use the word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Holworthy 3 and 4; luncheon there. Dinner at Algonquin Club at 7.00 P. M. Fri.--Headquarters, Holworthy 3 and 4; luncheon there...