Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
Died. Adolph Bernard Spreckels, 67, son of Claus Speckels who founded the big sugar industries of California and the Hawaiian Islands; at San Francisco, after a short illness. He was Vice President of the J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., and was connected with the Spreckels Sugar Co. of California and Hawaii. Famed as a sportsman, he owned fine yachts, important racehorses...
Hawaii. Continuance of Federal aid in harbor improvements. Settlement of public lands by the Hawaiian race...
This spring Padraic (or Patrick as one might call him if one dared) is at the MacDowell Colony for writers, in Peterboro, N. H. Last year, commissioned by the Hawaiian Government, he studied the folk tales of the island and reproduced them in his fascinating prose. I believe that Colum's residence in America and his fondness for us, has been a precious addition, for more than any other quality, it seems to me, our writers lack the sense of mystic fantasy, of homely beauty, of child-like imagery that this Peter Pan-like Irishman...
...agreement does not extend to the Hawaiian Islands, but practically identical measures restrict Japanese passports to these islands...