Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Romance is the chief advertised product of Tahiti. According to French tourist agencies, Tahiti, "Pearl of the Pacific," has everything Hawaii has, and its biggest village Papeete (pop.: 7,000) is "The Paris of the South Seas." Local realtors rent tourists seaside cottages outside Papeete, complete with female cook. Any native girl found on Papeete's streets after 9 o'clock at night is given a prostitute's card and a weekly physical examination. The Tahitians themselves have no words in their language for either prostitution or love...
...from Harper's, the American Mercury. The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, North American Review, Forum and Century, Yale Review, Fortune, and the Current History Magazine. Among the authors represented are Theodore Drieser, Jane Adams, Christian Gauss, James Truslow Adams, Albert Jay Nock, James Rowland Angell, Robert Hillyer, Michael Pupin, Pearl S. Buck, Zona Gale, and John Erskine...
...Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...
...Pearl...
...Chicago, when Nino Rinaldo took Margot King & Sadie Stearns to the Ranch Cafe for lunch, Sadie Stearns picked an oyster from Margot King's plate to sample. When she found in it a $1,900 pearl, Discoverer Stearns, Orderer King, Payer Rinaldo, Vendor Ranch Cafe all brought suit for possession...