Word: haitianize
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...combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
Lydia Bailey (20th Century-Fox), based on Kenneth Roberts' picaresque novel, is a Technicolor blend of Haitian history and Hollywood horse opera. Dale Robertson is cast as a dashing, mettlesome Baltimore attorney, who not only espouses the cause of Haitian independence against the French, but also gives a helping hand to blonde Lydia Bailey (Anne Francis), a Philadelphia girl who is engaged to evil Napoleonic Agent Charles Korvin. Disguised as a mulatto field hand, Robertson saves Lydia from jungle rot and rotters, guides her past Mirabeau's cutthroat maroons, and through the conflagration of Cap Francois...
Drawling Dale Robertson and baby-faced Anne Francis saunter through the Haitian underbrush as if they were taking a Sunday stroll in a botanical garden. In a )rief but effective appearance, Ken Renard plays Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti's "ounding father, who, judging from the movie, was on hand mainly to give Robertson moral support. But it is deep-voiced William Marshall who towers above the rest of the cast physically and histrionically as fictional Haitian Patriot King Dick...
...know That being philosophically slow May be sublime, But is a horrid loss of time. Haitian habits of driving and jaywalking make Americans leery, Because Haitians are always trying...
disprove the ('two-bodies-cannot-occupy-the-same-space-at-the-same-time" theory. And of course the Haitian institution...