Word: hula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annulment, charging his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not legal. // Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara sued R.A.F. Pilot George Brown for an annulment, blamed "want of understanding." // Mining Heir Dana Dodge, 25, who was charged with bigamy and sued for seduction and fraud by the hula dancer he married while Evelyn Thorye was still his wife, won an annulment of the hula marriage, withdrawal of the bigamy case, dismissal of the damage suit, a divorce from Evelyn. He is now in a sanitarium...
...that Grange could never have wriggled into the nation's headlines without Britton. Neither could have Harmon without Evashevski. Yet last week, just as they canonized Illinois' Red Grange 15 years before, hero-worshiping U. S. football fans spread a halo around Tom Harmon, Michigan's hula-hipped halfback who put on the best one-man show of the 1940 season, hung up a conference record of 33 touchdowns in three years' competition...
...ugly stepchild. Its principal function is to present the cheesecake of the cast-blonde, lethargic Alice Faye and blonde, lithe Betty Grable-as the sister act of Katie and Lily Blane. Capitalizing on their more obvious assets, the film sets Alice and Betty wriggling and crooning in cellophane hula skirts and harem costumes. Clearly neither of the girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye, now somewhat more mature than Miss Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable the slimmer wriggle. The rest of the activity centres around...
...Columbus, Ohio, 73,000 rain-soaked fans witnessed a game long to be remembered. Michigan's hula-hipped Tom Harmon, foremost footballer of the year, ended his spectacular varsity career by scoring 22 of the 40 points that whitewashed Ohio State, 40-to-0. In 24 varsity games, Harmon has scored 33 touchdowns, kicked 33 points after touchdown, kicked two field goals for a total of 237 points-best scoring record in Big Ten history. Famed Red Grange, in 20 games, tallied 31 touchdowns...
...begin a Festival Fanfare which he had written for the jubilee. Next to Stainer's Sevenfold Amen, the Fanfare was probably the longest (ten minutes) ever composed, gave every instrument in the orchestra something to do, finally had even the Schellenbaum (manned by a percussionist) shaking like a hula dancer...