Word: hula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers...
...York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
...Hula-Hula...
...TIME, Jan. 30, p. 38 ". . . Fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment. . . ." In TIME, Feb. 20, p. 68 ". . . this time executed in a hula hula skirt and. . . ." H. H. Cleaves in Hawaii, Its People and Customs says ". . . the Hula is a Hawaiian dance. It is correct to say, 'a hula dancer' or 'a hula skirt.' However to say 'hula hula' or 'hula-hula' (with the hyphen) is merely repeating 'dance dance.' . . ." So, in keeping with your present ideas of Hawaii-Hawaii...
Coach Clark Hodder's Varsity Hula men will meet the Boston University fullers at 2 o'clock on the Belmont course this afternoon in their second engagement of the year. On Saturday they repulsed St. John...