Word: cocoanuts
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...wish to commend Mr. La Farge '20 for his excellent criticism of the "after-the-theatre amusement place called the "Cocoanut Grove." But, in order to insure to future communications of this sort the greatest effectiveness, I would make the following suggestions...
...immoral an exhibition as has ever been staged in America. It is, of course, the result of its very much less harmful predecessor, the "Midnight Frolic," as that was the more risque result of its predecessor, "Castles in the Air." That there should be such a place as the "Cocoanut Grove" in New York is not surprising--all great cities have their "tough joints"; and there is always an audience that will flock in great numbers to such a production. The shame of this special case is that the "Cocoanut Grove" is patronized by those people who are supposed...
...working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with narrow strips of the same leaf...
There is yet some uncertainty as to where the practice will be held this year, but probably Holmes Field will be selected. The eleven practiced there the spring of '94. As there is no regular cricket pitch on the field, a cocoanut matting has to be stretched over the ground after it has been well rolled. Beacon Park, where the eleven practiced last year through the kindness of the Zingari eleven, has been bought up by a railroad...
...just presented to the Botanical Museum an interesting specimen of the flowering cluster of cocoanut, collected by him this summer in Jamaica. On the cluster which is still tightly packed inits firm sheath, there are many unopened buds, a few blossoms widely open, and some young fruits no larger than horse-chestnuts...