Word: aloha
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...Afficianados will note with distaste that the modern circus still has too much of the ballet, the burlesque, and the "Regal Cavalcade with Queen Marie Antoinette and her Gay Court of The Royal Horse Show in the Forest of Fontaineblean." But even so nauseous a spectacle as Sixty Alluring Aloha Girls Aloft can be reclaimed by watching Pinito Del Oro in the center, standing no-hands on a swinging trapeze...
...public-address system was blaring Aloha when the big plane pulled up in the glare of newsreel lights at Hickam Air Force Base at Honolulu, twelve hours and six minutes later. There were fast handshakes in the confusion of the midnight welcome, and next day, on a forty mile parade, the city of Honolulu gave General MacArthur a preview of the civic receptions to come-including more applause and cheers than had greeted Harry Truman on the way to his Wake Island meeting with MacArthur six months before...
...millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced...
...with Hawaiian Pineapple for 20 years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
...motions, like a weary hula dancer. In 1948, it lost $148,427. Then, early this year, CAB gave Ruddy's Trans-Pacific Airlines a five-year certificate. This week, as T.P.A. advertised its first scheduled inter-island flights, to start next week, Tongg invited Hawaiians to "fly the Aloha...