Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
Most potent though not soonest to walk the plank would be famed Dr. Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the German Republic during 1922-23, and present Chairman of the rapidly expanding and resurgent Hamburg-Amerikas-Linie which has obsorbed the Kosmos, Stinnes and German-Australian lines thus bringing its tonnage up to 850,000, as against...
...Alaska's uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor of a Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn...
...Australians swear that this knee-wagging hip-smacking, arm-swinging dance, commonly thought by the U. S. to have originated with Carolina Negroes, started as a war dance in the Australian hinterland...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...