Word: makin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Eakins (rhymes with makin's) lived & died (1844-1916) without enjoying or soliciting artistic honors. In last week's show he was commemorated in 88 of his works, chiefly oils plus four of the little wax figures he made to help him with his sculptural paintings, and a few of the charming, swift sketches he always made in oil, even for his watercolors. One of these paintings, Salutat, represented his famed boxing series, which he painted before gentlemen were supposed to profess an interest in pugilism. Another, The Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake, represented his equally famed rowing series...
...colonel came Makin's fat, benevolent King Nakaiea, bearing a complaint. An interpreter translated...
...Colonel know that Makin's young women bathed, naked, in a certain lake? Yes, said the Colonel, he knew. Did the Colonel know that U.S. soldiers gathered around the lake and embarrassed the girls by comment and laughter? The Colonel pondered, then proposed: "I know what is in the King's mind. I shall have a high fence built around the lake and covered with salvaged tentirg so that the young ladies' privacy may be preserved...
...went an order to all Americans on Makin. Now the bathing hour is marked by the patrolling of stern M.P.s, the gazing of frozen-faced G.I.s, the splashing of brown beauties...
Women in the Gilberts have never been wholly converted to the mission-style dress from neck to knee. By signs, a New York sergeant conveyed to a Makin girl that he wanted a grass skirt for a souvenir. Quickly she whipped hers off, politely offered it. The red-faced soldier hastily gave the gift-giver a large bandana handkerchief. Graciously she accepted, deftly wrapped it around her head...