Word: pago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pago-Pago atmosphere has little to do with the success of the Freshman Jubilee. This gathering of the clan, this occasion which transforms the usually mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom...
...TIME, April 19, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Captain Kellogg has been gone from Pago Pago for lo, these many days. Captain H. F. Bryan (ret.) is now Commandant and Governor...
American Samoa contains Pago-Pago,* perhaps the most valuable harbor in the Pacific, ceded over to the U.S. by the native king in 1872. Samoa later became a U.S. dependency under a tripartite agreement with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
...Half Caste is one of those seethingly tropical things which sound suspiciously as if the author had never been nearer Pago-Pago than a ukelele store. It tells of a fine young U.S. yachtsman who falls in love with one of the island damsels. Later she turns out to be his half sister. A dancer* named Veronica has the leading role...
...none of the mechanical action and listless mouthing of lines that one might expect after four years of daily performances. Miss Jeanne Eagels still puts all of herself into the role of Miss Sadie Thompson, the lady of ill repute who turns toys curvy the sedentary life of Pago Pago. The rest of the players still give her sincere, intelligent support. The rain machine still works overtime to contribute its quota of depression and morbidity to the atmosphere...