Word: hawalian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken considerably less. "Waikiki Wedding" is a string of pearls, imitation. They consist of Bob Burns and Martha Raye and numerous semi-humorous incidents; Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross and numerous semi-romantic incidents; and numerous biological implications. The latter are of course the concomitant of anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye. "Waikiki Wedding" consists of practically anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye, from hula to volcano, from pineapples to, of all people Crosby...
...Waikiki Wedding" is pleasant to behold if you like Bing's voice, semi-Hawalian music, and genuine pictures of a schooner under sail; tiresome if you think Martha Haye's mouth is to big for her face. The string itself is a not too substantial plot of how the champion pineapple salesman sells himself while trying to sell his product. But the show is not to be condemned for being unsubstantial, because that is just what it tries not to be. Rather this is something aimed directly to please the not too demanding sense...
...whether or not Hawaii should be admitted to the Union as a state, the Debating Council opposed the University of Hawaii last Saturday night over a trans-Pacific hookup. The Harvard debaters Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35 and Thomas H. Quinn '36 argued for the negative side, while their Hawalian opponents John Casstevens and Robert North upheld the affirmative in the no decision debate...
...government battled fiercely tonight to keep secret records pertaining to Cuban relations leading up to the Costigan-Jones Sugar Law, challenged by Hawalian planters...