Word: kawa
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...quite all the globe has become humdrum yet. While reviewers are declaring that O'Brien's pictures of South Sea glamour are mere imaginative fiction, and while Cruises of the Kawa are making them, seem ridiculous, stories like this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel...
...good ship "Kawa" had quite a motion, but not enough to make this author feel off color. Just as much brown and coral as ever inside the same green cover...
...foremost naturalists of the English-speaking world, Mr. Beebe, whose latest book "Edge of the Jungle", is having a large sale has a delightful vein of playfulness which is shown in his recent review of "The Cruise of the Kawa", a screaming burlesque on South Sea expeditions such as he writes of seriously, and in his story of the time when, as an aviator, he bombed a farmhouse full of German soldiers though aiming at a troop train, and upon his return he did not trouble to correct the French soldiers who complimented him on his fine shot...