Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airplane Friendship in which Passenger Amelia Earhart first crossed the Atlantic. Captured by troops loyal to Dictator Ibanez, the Colonel was exiled to Easter Island. There he pumped the Chilean Governor of this colony so full of revolutionary ideas that Governor & Colonel set out in a small boat to Tahiti, later made their way to France. In July 1931, after Dictator Ibanez was ousted, Colonel Grove returned to Chile, has been intriguing ever since...
...radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department...
...whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy Ruth Miller, 26, in Hollywood, of an intestinal disorder contracted in Tahiti; Arthur Hammer" stein, 55, theatrical producer, in Manhattan, of a bladder ailment...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
Under Art for March 23, you give out the impression that Henry Adams and John La Farge spent a hectic interval on Tahiti dodging Gloomy Paul Gauguin when as a matter of fact, to Paul they were Western trash and the last creatures in the world with whom he would traffic . . . but perhaps it is the lavish economy of your style that creates these false impressions...