Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judd had been in Hawaiian service one year when the British ship Carysfort, Captain George Paulet commanding, sailed into Honolulu Harbor, prepared to take possession of the Island of Oahu. King Kamahameha, frightened, ceded his kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu...
...immigration laws checked that. In Hawaii, the Japanese are called "the Jews of the Pacific" because of their ability, eagerness, tenacity at acquiring the characteristics and culture of another people. Most of the work on the sugar and pineapple plantations is performed by Filipinos (60,000 on the island) and Chinese...
...prime Dillingham enthusiasm is polo. He organized the Hawaii Polo & Racing Association, developed inter-island games, captained many a Hawaiian , team journeying to the mainland...
Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership. Also he told of two biographies soon forth-coming-one of the late great Myron T. Herrick, one of Banker-Ambassador Henry Morgenthau. When a new caddy joins the caddy-shed gang at the Piping Rock Club on Long Island, one of the first persons he learns to recognize is a very tall, very lean, very sunburned man with a decided aquiline nose, a pleasant smile. "That's Russell Doubleday," the new caddy is told. "He's a swell guy." The new caddy soon learns that though...
Proud were four pretty Eastern girls last week. At Hicksville. L. I., they performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman...