Word: hawaiian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story she told later, five men seized her, drove her away in an auto, beat her and raped her. Five men of mixed Hawaiian and Asiatic blood were arrested and accused of the crime. When they were let out on bail, Thalia Massie's Kentucky-born, Annapolis-bred husband, with the help of Thalia's socialite mother and two enlisted men, kidnaped one of them-a massive man named Joe Kahahawai. They shot him and drained out his blood in a water-filled bathtub...
...Massie case was an unprecedented flare-up in Hawaiian race relations. But its melodramatic aspects awakened the first general interest that the people of the mainland U.S. had ever shown in their neglected Pacific paradise, 2,400 miles west of San Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned...
...Bridges signed only 900 Hawaiian workers. But two years later, some 33,000 agricultural workers had joined his ranks. In a first test of strength he struck the sugar plantations, tied them up for 79 days, almost wrecked the industry by ordering his strikers not to maintain its vital irrigation system. His victory was small: he won an 18½?-an-hour increase, to which the owners had agreed a month before the end of the strike...
There have been many attempts to take the pidgin out of Hawaiian English. Under pressure from haole (white) parents, the legislature set up separate English-language schools, but Professor Brigance, along with many Hawaiians, regards these as undemocratic and divisive. During the war, the Army shut down Japanese and Chinese language schools, but last month in federal court they won the right to start up again. In many homes, where parents speak no English and children no Japanese, pidgin is the only family tongue. One pidgin phrase is known as far as Italy. It is the motto of the famed...
...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...