Word: algonquin
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...distinction: "Chink," "Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
Short, dark, tired-looking, she is superstitious, pessimistic, hates to be alone. She is fond of her dachshund, Robinson. She lives in sociable isolation at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin. Other books: Laments for the Living (TIME, June 16, 1930); Enough Rope, Sunset Gun (verse...
...annual reunion and dinner of past competitors, officers, managers, coaches and friends of the I. C. 4A, is to be held at the Algonquin Club, Boston, at 7 o'clock on Friday, it was announced yesterday...
...might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried itself with a mountainous thrust in the port side of the Fort Victoria...
Married. Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks. 40, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and of James Evans Jr. of Pittsburgh; mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; and Jack Whiting, 28, of Philadelphia, leading man in the musicomedy Hold Everything; at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan...