Word: hyphen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Last week was a big one for heroes in Czecho-Slovakia; and because of what the heroes represented, the hyphen in Czechoslovakia became alarmingly noticeable. One hero was the late Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, the father of a united Czechoslovakia. On his birthday (it would have been his 89th), thousands of Czechs, mostly peasants in national costume, trudged to his grave in a little country churchyard 20 miles from Prague. There they silently prayed that the four eggs he put into the CzechoSlovakian basket (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukraine) might not be any further broken...
Bohemia, the Czech part of the Republic, will have 140 seats in the Assembly, Slovakia 50, Ruthenia ten. In the Senate the three States will have equal strength, eight seats each. A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it "CzechoSlovakia" according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic's name changed to "The State of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians." Other proposed names with important backing this week: "Western Slavia"; "Central Slavia"; "Slavia...
Minnesota is a strong Farmer-Labor State, but of late the Farmer-Labor Party has been straining at its internal hyphen. Earnest, hard-boiled Governor Elmer A. Benson is a favorite in the Twin Cities and with the miners of the northern iron ranges. He is less popular with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson...
...forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party's gubernatorial nominee, was squeezed out by 32-year-old progressive Harold Stassen. Net result of the hyphen primary was to leave Minnesota's conservatives thoroughly dissatisfied, make it doubly necessary for the New Deal to support Governor Benson lest Republicans get an inner track on Minnesota's eleven 1940 electoral votes. Jubilated Elmer A. Benson: "It shows very clearly that those who believe in liberal...