Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the hotel, put up in its place 24 hotel bungalows, three swimming pools, a nightclub and bar. To be sure that his new toy was authentic, he used Polynesian architecture and decor (tiki gods. Hawaiian and Oriental furnishings, yards of tapa cloth, thousands of sea shells), had a Samoan Mormon colony thatch the bungalow roofs by hand. In the village's color scheme, he put heavy emphasis on coral pink. Said Kaiser: "Pink gives you a joyous feeling...
Uncharted Shoals. Once Mary Pickford's private yacht, the sturdy, 75-ft. Joyita was apparently sound as a dollar when she hauled anchor in the Samoan port of Apia one day early last October on a routine, 40-hour voyage to the nearby Tokelau Islands. Sudden line squalls, uncharted shoals and the whirling menace of unheralded waterspouts are common hazards to navigation in that part of the world, but during his years as a charter captain and fisherman in the South Seas, Dusty Miller, who habitually stood his watches in native costume, had brought his little ship safely through...
...SAMOAN ADVENTURE (264 pp.)-Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson-Harper...
...diary starts in September 1890, when the Stevensons first settled down at Vailima, their home on Upolu. Louis, who was tubercular, had traveled the globe in search of health, and the Samoan climate seemed to help. Indianapolis-born Fanny had been a pioneer of sorts in California in post-Gold-Rush days. She was married to a restless clerk-soldier-prospector, later divorced him. The easy, outdoor life in Samoa was made for her. Her enthusiasm seems to have cheered Louis; it only annoyed his mother, who hated Samoa. Fanny wrote: "She dislikes the life here which we find...
Puleston, who was 47 last week, has always sketched birds in his spare time -whether commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to a bank in London or hunting buried treasure off Hispaniola, or being initiated into a Samoan clan, or traveling "hard" class across Russia, or training troops to land on Omaha Beach...