Word: lovaina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lovaina was only one fourth Tahitian, all the remainder of her racial inheritance being American: but she was all Tahitian in her traits, her simplicity, her devoting to her traits, her simplicity, her devotion to her friends, her catching folly s it flew, and here pride in a new possession...
Then there are Lovaina's girls. They are young tadies of many parts--waitresses ostensibly but only occasionally--but we supose that they too are things of the past. But they must have been charming when they had their day. Indeed they we so charming that Livonia gave up in despair the attempt to bring them up in the way they should go. "I tell you, I give up truyin ave those girl," confides Lovaina to the author, "I think they like ruin best. I turn my back--they ruin...
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