Word: squaw
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
Died. William Faversham, 72, Gibson Girl-era matinee idol; of coronary thrombosis; in Bay Shore, N. Y. Romeo to Maude Adams' Juliet, best remembered as The Squaw Man, thrice-married Faversham made and lost several fortunes, declared himself bankrupt in 1935, and in 1937 entered the Percy Williams Home for destitute actors...
Most famed activity of The Lambs are its Gambols (known on Broadway as Shambles), usually private affairs at the club. These start off as a full-length show, end up as anything. Many a Broadway hit grew out of the Gambols: Experience and The Squaw Man were first tried out there as one-acters, and it was there that George M. Cohan first sang Over There...