Word: hawaiian
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...Japan . . . has driven a strategic wedge of Japanese dominion between the two American island possessions, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands...
...When they have got the Philippines and added them to the island mandate they have refused to give up, the Japanese Empire will be half way across the Pacific and able to contact and control the Hawaiian Islands, which they now populate...
...bitter French peasant in a Hawaiian grass skirt was driving a span of oxen at Brissac near Tours last week. In the same held another team pulled a heavy plow under the vicious prodding of a gold-laced Spanish matador. Out in the same farm's kitchen garden a Chinese mandarin was watering the kohlrabi. In the stable reporters found a sullen Frenchman in the bonnet and kilts of a Gordon Highlander forking manure...
...employes on his farm. Each employe was also given a costume from the Barlow collection. An ironclad clause in the will provided that none of the legacies should be paid unless the 18 legatees wore their fancy costumes continuously for one year. Chinese mandarin, cossack, matador, Indian rajah and Hawaiian went stolidly about their work last week, counting the days...
...Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant in Japan for two years! Publisher Hearst last week slathered his papers with a half-page editorial and half-page map under the screamer line: "Only Preparedness Will Prevent War." It sounded alarming even for alarmist Publisher Hearst. Excerpts...