Word: greenlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LEAVES FROM A GREENLAND DIARY- Ruth Bryan Owen-Dodd, Mead...
...offering to the growing pile. Not strictly a New Dealer, the daughter of the late great William Jennings Bryan eschewed politics and economics, confined herself to weather, scenery, sights. Her little book was the record of a semi-official trip last year to Denmark's biggest colony. Greenland...
This book by Madam Minister is about the nearest most readers will ever get to Greenland, for the island is closed to tourists and traders. Traveler Owen set out from Copenhagen on her voyage feeling adventurous but game. The little 1,400-ton ship she went on had only one bathroom, but her cabin was filled with flowers. At her first sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much...
...Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
Shrewd U. S. Minister Ruth Bryan Owen flattered little Denmark's pride in its big colony of Greenland by holding a Dansmik (Eskimo feast) in her legation at Copenhagen. Eighty guests, chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...