Word: kanaka
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...loss of Dujarier and Bavaria. But at 35, after severe bouts of sickness and marriage, she rallied enough to join the California gold rush. She opened a frontier salon in a mining camp called Grass Valley and stocked it with Ludwig's jewels, Louis Seize cabinets, ormolu mirrors, Kanaka houseboys, a swan bed, a pet bear and every Senator, Governor or millionaire she could find. In the back of her mind, as letters discovered after her death made clear, was a plot to capture California from the U.S. and set herself up as Queen of Lolaland...
...does mainland standards like Coin' Out of My Head and latter-day island songs like You'll Never Find Another Kanaka [Native Boy] Like Me. Obligatory at every show is a song called Suck 'em Up, meaning "Bottoms up." When Don moans "Ah ha," the whole house raises $2.50 mai tais and belts along "Suck 'em up." "The more you drink and spend," he quips, "the more chance we get our boy. land back...
...love Clarence Darrow for his flair for the underdog. . . . Nobody in the world was ever more adept in convincing twelve men that another man, who had bombed somebody, or poisoned somebody, or taken a Kanaka for a ride in the most approved gangster style, or, with some psychopathic urge, taken a little boy out into the Michigan dunes and beaten the life out of him, hadn't either bombed, or poisoned, or ridden or beaten anybody...
Vaudeville audiences, connoisseurs of good juggling, have long agreed that Japanese and seals possess unrivaled coordination of mind, eye and muscle. Last week at South Vancouver, B. C., one K. Kanaka, Japanese golfer, smiled broadly, having brought new honors to his race. Playing over the Canadian Pacific's Langara course he had established what was considered a record; had made two "holes-in-one" in a single round...