Word: pele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis took him to Waimea Canyon, which in the sunlight displayed colors as brilliant as those of Grand Canyon. Louis was full of old legends and superstitions, and here he took time to seek of the fire goddess Pele, who roamed about Kattai digging caves as she searched for a home; but each cave held water, and she had to move on to another and another until she settled in one with almost no water, which was unfortunate, for ever after she was never quite as hot. At least so Louis said...
This mild pleasantry is as excellently suited to Bing Crosby's mild acting talents as its soft Hawaiian tunes (Momi Pele, Okolehau, Nani Ona Pua) are suited to his deep warbling. Comedy is ladled out by Martha Raye, who distorts her vast mouth and yowls, and by Bob Burns, who to get laughs uses a pig named Wafford instead of his former "Bazooka." This amiable razorback is by far the funniest member of the trio, steals the show by oinking at suitable moments, winning a blue ribbon at a dog-show, then exhibiting a most distinctive canine trait when...
...meets Franklin Roosevelt pays tribute to his personal charm and graciousness. When in Hawaii last summer he drove to the brink of Kilauea. Just as barefoot natives have done from time immemorial, he tossed into the inactive volcano a handful of red ohelo berries, traditional offering made to propitiate Pele, goddess of volcanoes. For six weeks Pele did nothing about it. Suddenly last week Kilauea belched forth a cloud of smoke, vomited millions of tons of molten lava. Natives concluded these were signs that Pele, too, had succumbed to Franklin Roosevelt's charm...
Swifter than Pele in reacting to Roosevelt charm was ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair, now Democratic nominee for Governor of California. On the night before a visit to Hyde Park Mr. Sinclair, by his own ad- mission, was nervous and slept badly. At 5 o'clock the next afternoon he entered the President's study at Hyde Park for an hour's conference. It was two hours before he emerged. He stripped off his coat, sat down with newshawks and began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life...
...smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...