Word: honolulu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hornbeck has just recently returned after a two years' sojourn in the East, of which he spent 13 months in China. While in the East Professor Hornbeck attended the Conference on Pacific Relations held at Honolulu. Professor Hornbeck went to China on a special investigation for the Bureau of International Research, and stayed when the work was done to conduct more research at the special request of the United States government. He also did work for the Conference on Chinese Customs Tariff...
...this is the real basis for disturbances in that country," said Professor S. K. Hornbeck of the University History Department to a Crimson reporter yesterday. Professor Hornbeck has recently returned from a two years absence in the Far East where be attended the Conference on Pacific Relations in Honolulu and was a member of several American delegations to conferences on the Far East question...
English-speaking residents of Honolulu and adjacent Pacific centres lately marveled, puzzled, then chuckled over an advertisement in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (evening: circulation, 16,000). On other pages were the conventional displays prescribed by U. S. copy-artists - tobacco broadsides, department store revelations, bank announcements. But up in the corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest...
...marine is absolutely dependent upon a first-class Navy." At Port Washington, L. I., Lieutenant Frank H. Conant* sped to an unofficial world's seaplane record (251.5 miles per hour). At Lakehurst, N. J., thousands touched the silvery hide of the dirigible Los Angeles and said, "Gee!" In Honolulu and Shanghai, brown-skinned and yellow-skinned populace looked at brawny necks emerging from glistening white U. S. uniforms. . . . Navy Day was no myth...
Rain. After four years of Rain, Jeanne Eagels pours forth the dismal woes of Sadie Thompson in a last two-week stand at the Century Theatre. Somerset Maugham's story, made into one of the most successful plays in recent years, tells of a jaywalking girl from Honolulu and a fanatical, suppressed missionary who meet on a South Sea island. Miss Eagels, after some fourteen hundred performances has, to all intents and purposes, become Sadie Thompson. Actors, producers, public thundered her a tremendous ovation...