Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...
...Banja Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra is made up of a select group of players to provide the dance music for after the concerts. The Specialty Division offers ample opportunities for first rate vaudeville acts. Clog dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, along with xylophone, Hawaiian guitar, ukelele, and accordian playing are desirable...
Almost exactly a yearago (TiME, Sept. 14, 21, 1925), another plane, the PN-9, NO. 1, fell with Commander Rodgers into the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco was 1,700 miles behind; the Hawaiian Islands 400 miles ahead. He and his men had no food, no fuel. They ripped the fabric off the wings and caught a little rainwater in it. Commander Rodgers, with a "silly little still" his mother had made him take along, distilled more drink from seawater. After a week, a submarine found the plane and its scarecrow crew...
...summer of 1926 may come to be chronicled in histories as the beginning of an era when the U. S. actually leapt into the air, stayed there. No more sporadic gestures like the Shenandoah, the Hawaiian flights, but real laws, appropriations, Cabinet officers, potent metal planes, transcontinental airways mark the summer. Auspicious events...
Last week too Jesse L. Lasky's original barn studio in Hollywood, Calif., was torn down. It gave him -a onetime San Francisco newspaperman, Alaskan goldhunter, Hawaiian bandsman-his great opportunity towards wealth 12 years...