Word: fijians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited through the generations and quite generally retained exclusively within the family. I have never seen a chess cake recipe published." Fish Lolo. "Lolo is Fijian for the juice extracted from freshly grated coconut ; do not mistake it for the milk of the coconut. When I originally tasted this, the fish was raw - but it had been soaked in lemon juice for twelve hours and you would have sworn it had been cooked." Grandmother Coxey...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
...wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep a record) and the works themselves sent "to decorate Makerere College in Uganda or the corridors of some Fijian veterinary school...
Personally, I owe my hide to some Fijian Scouts on Bougainville. And the Fijians are not exactly white. As a matter of fact, they are quite sunburned. But all these peoples are fighting on our side to preserve our freedom to hate them...
Last week came news that: 1) the Central Medical School has increased its students to 76, including eight dental students; 2) there are 100 native nurses in training; 3) the Fijian Government now proposes an overall health plan for all the islands, with a base hospital at Suva served by air ambulances from the other islands...