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Word: lolani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Hawaii, Krug advocated the final step. In the throne room of Hawaiian kings in lolani Palace, he promised to plead with Congress to grant statehood to Hawaii. President Truman, he said, would do everything he could to obtain it. The territorial legislature had just opened with a peculiarly Polynesian contribution to democracy in action-a hula orchestra with an outsize swaying dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Call to Conscience | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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