Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total population is now some 350,000. Caucasians, though constituting only one-tenth of the populace, dominate. There is no "race problem," largely because there has been much intermarriage and "the colors have run." Besides 20,000 Hawaiian full-bloods there are some 25,000 half-castes. Largest pure racial group are 135,000 Japanese, of whom 83,000 are U. S. citizens. Japan once planned to annex Hawaii by intensive colonization, but U. S. immigration laws checked that. In Hawaii, the Japanese are called "the Jews of the Pacific" because of their ability, eagerness, tenacity at acquiring the characteristics...
Contrary to popular belief, "Hawaiian music" is not a pure racial product. Natives invented the rhythm, foreigners the melodies. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin, taken to the islands by early settlers and now manufactured, chiefly in California, for export to Hawaii...
Hoots and catcalls filled the Rio streets. Enraged Brazilian editors headlined their stories: "Pure Deception." They swore that, like Italy. Brazil should never participate again in such a contest...
Many a citizen who read his newspaper last Sunday morning was reminded of a charred keg down in his cellar, which he had filled weeks ago with nothing more intoxicating than grape juice, cane sugar, pure water. He was reminded also that he had done nothing since about the mixture, but that soon it would be fermented, turned to glow-giving wine...
...Constantinople last week, the man who had suffered most from "Steel Man" Stalin was feverishly explaining how his pure Communist conscience permitted him to write articles for the capitalistic press of Europe and the U. S., and to receive tainted capitalistic gold for the same. Exile Leon Trotsky wrote...