Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Sears is telling the story of the war waged in the 1670's by the Indian chieftain Metacom, whom the English called King Philip, against the white settlers of the New England States. King Philip was centainly a very striking figure. Possessed of great strength and stature, his prowess in war kept the colonists in a continual state of fear, and the fight he led brought death to several hundred colonists and destruction to a dozen towns...
Each time the French Foreign Legion nabs an important chieftain in the perpetual Berber rebellion in French Morocco, another springs up to take his place. Two of the greatest of these blue-cowled die-hards were the Brothers El Hiba and Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan of the south, sometimes called "The Blue Sultan,"* sometimes "The Saint." Nabbed in 1917 by the French, El Hiba passed his baton on to Brother Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand...
...children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf, 62, son of the last Blackfoot chieftain; after a brief illness; in Glacier Park, Mont, (see p. 10). ¶Died. Fielder Allison Jones, 62, baseball player and manager; in his sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from...
...moment quiescent, louder than at any time in the past two years rose that favorite rumor of European cafes-restoration of 21-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram the Rich who died around 950 A. D. and whose grandson built the castle of Habichtsburg or Habsburg ("Hawk's Castle") on the Aar near its junction with the Rhine. The House has never produced a great statesman or a great warrior. Two traits its sons...
...mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they were sure of his skill in mountain fastnesses. For five years they sought to capture him, bombing him from airplanes, attempting to storm his retreats. The rebel chieftain who eluded five thousand Marines, who rejoiced when American intervention was withdrawn, now lies dead at the hands of assassins, killed not as a soldier but as the leader of a peaceful agricultural community...