Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...crew of H. M. S. Bounty mutinied in mid-Pacific, put Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal men into an open boat, sailed to Tahiti. Instead of starving or drowning, Captain Bligh and his sailors made a voyage of 4,000 miles back to England, sent a frigate to punish the mutineers. When the frigate reached Tahiti, only a few of the mutineers were there to be hanged. The rest had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island where they had beached and burned her and where their descendants still live...
Died. Ex-Queen Joanna of Tahiti, 80; in Papeete. Born Marau Toroa, daughter of a British sailor and a native princess, she married King Pomare V in 1875 when England and France were intriguing for Tahiti. Queen Joanna favored England. Fun-loving, she shocked Christian missionaries with her private life, which included giving birth to a daughter whose paternity Pomare denied in a royal proclamation. Finally won by French diplomacy, Joanna made no protest when her husband abdicated...
...scauws zsegoin out da big ship" ("see the boats going out to the big ship"); and, "pfwat youall comee do diffy daffy?" ("why are you coming to do this and that?"). A few words, such as "tai-tai" (tasteless), are retained from the Tahitian although long since obsolete on Tahiti itself...
...That Pitcairn Island (a British possession) has come to be one of the most famed dots on the world map is largely due to two writers, Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...