Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masters" of modern painting: Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. Many a guest at the opening could well remember the time when these men were not even subjects for polite conversation. There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti; Cezanne, the vitriolic rebel of the '90s; Van Gogh, the lunatic. They had been accused of "war madness" and of corruption. But such misgivings had long been allayed. On Monk's cloth the canvases hung, beauteously framed, expensively lighted. All around stood pillars of society. Together they murmured with...
...Thomas was sent to restore the Hawaiian flag, which ceremony took place in the plaza now known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder's eldest son, G. P. Wilder, is a well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...
Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture. In the squad were that frazzled lover, Monte Blue, and a 20-year-old Mexican girl named Raquel Torres. At Tahiti, the squad got natives to fill out the cast, paid them with canned salmon, flour, toilet water, shaving cream, mirrors. Everybody might have enjoyed a good time, had it not been for the rain and the heat, which combined to produce a disease called rain-tan. Even when...
This is from South Sea Settlers, p. 261, by J. R. and B. B. by Grey, an English book republished here by Henry Holt & Co., New York. The authors are ranchers or farmers on the island Moorea near Tahiti in the Pacific, and as distance lends enchantments you might care to hear from your far-off readers through the above quotation. I am curious to know if the authors are really subscribers, and you might think proper to answer through TIME...