Word: polynesian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...
...youth, opening upon a region "where every prospect pleases" and only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk...