Word: hula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lantern-jawed Army Air Forces 2nd Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 23, reported missing on duty "in the South American Area," was nine days later found safe in a Brazilian jungle. In Ann Arbor, where the onetime Michigan halfback had hula-hipped himself to All-America fame, his parents offered special masses, got many a wire from Tommy's worried admirers. Anxiety ended, his anxious mother promptly cabled her son ". . . just so he'd know that we knew he was safe and weren't worried any more...
...Ross F. Jones' moot court martial trial today with the arrival of Miss Minute Mooch upon the scene ably portrayed by Vincent Lauer. Everyone stood aghast not knowing whether or not they were looking at the real McCoy when Minnie fluttered her pink garters and gave the boys the Hula hip come...
...Chinese, four Filipinos). For a while they thrived on a new design: "Remember Pearl Harbor," with a bomb about to drop on the words and "December Seventh" on either side of the bomb. But last week they said that U.S. sailors were returning to old favorites such as hula-hula girls, a ship framed with palm trees above "Hawaii" or "Aloha...
...blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was fined $20 by a city judge. She said it was worth it. Shortly 500-odd-pound Baby sued the swallower for $3,000. The bottle had hit her so hard, she claimed, that "all bones, muscles, tissues, nerves and my entire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained." Old Fashioned...
...Allan Roy Dafoe skipped a New York medical meeting for a little side trip to see a hula dancer in Philadelphia-the chaperoned daughter of an oldtime friend...