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Word: kawananakoa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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Usage:

...crime and the conviction of Mrs. Massie's mother, husband and two men for manslaughter. Last week, Flapper's Half Acre made sordid news again. A telephone call for an ambulance brought police to the sumptuous beach house of thick-jowled young Prince David Kalakaua Kawananakoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Prince Koke | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...David Kawananakoa, "Prince Koke" to white Hawaiians, is the grandnephew of the last male member of Hawaii's long line of native kings-fat, pleasure-loving David Kalakaua, who liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Prince Koke | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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