Word: suva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a mild epidemic of measles and much general hilarity, the Duke and Duchess of York landed at Suva, Fiji Islands, last week from the cruiser Renown, on their way to Australia (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.). The natives, their faces painted, their bodies caparisoned in grassy garments, received the King-Emperor's son with a tama, a prolonged, mournful and most honorable sound, a sound that begins as a grant, crescendoes to a bark, and ends with an exclamation resembling "WHOA...
Readers and Speakers: W. H. Boireau 1G.B., L. J. Castilliejo 2G., G. S. Cook '25, C. A. Fritz '19, John Haeseler '23, T. C. Miyagawa '23, George Owen '23, F. J. Shaffner '24, George Suva 4G., B. J. Whiting...