Word: hula
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Walter Francis Dillingham was proud of being a karnaaina (oldtimer) and he loved Hawaii's traditions. He seldom appeared without an orchid in his lapel, and he was pleased that the women of his family learned to do the hula. Yet, for all his fondness for the old ways, Dillingham probably did more to mold a modern Hawaii than any other man. And when he died last week at 88, the islands mourned the loss of "Uncle Walter," who in a sense had been patriarch to a whole state...
...stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler for punctuality. At home in Bel Air, he collects shotguns and rifles, which he uses on Jeep trips across the California countryside in search of game birds...
...Spot sends Judy Holliday to D'hum, pronounced doom. D'hum is a semi-Tibetan, semitropical country populated in its whimsical, multialtitudinal way mostly by yaks and native girls in hula skirts. It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a lady Jonah anxious to do good out where the East begins, but this musical is as funny as a tumbrel...
When Judy isn't scaring up a bogus Red-underground menace to get her man, the handsome Ugly American consul (Joseph Campanella), she drones through some tuneless tunes decomposed by Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary. The hula mob masses occasionally for dance gymnastics, the kind that gives playgoers clusterphobia...
...marching 50 miles in 20 hours, according to the terms of an old Teddy Roosevelt order. The Marines responded. And so, it seemed, did everyone else who could muster up the same kind of spirit it took to swallow gold fish, raid for panties or whirl a hula hoop...