Word: tahiti
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...brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu that Tahitian women wear. Last week U. S. manufacturers were plugging "Tahitian pareos" for the Florida socialite trade. But by a cruel irony, in Tahiti itself, biggest of the French Society Islands Tahitian women were forbidden to wear indecent pareus. Instead they were supposed to wear imported French cotton dresses...
Romance is the chief advertised product of Tahiti. According to French tourist agencies, Tahiti, "Pearl of the Pacific," has everything Hawaii has, and its biggest village Papeete (pop.: 7,000) is "The Paris of the South Seas." Local realtors rent tourists seaside cottages outside Papeete, complete with female cook. Any native girl found on Papeete's streets after 9 o'clock at night is given a prostitute's card and a weekly physical examination. The Tahitians themselves have no words in their language for either prostitution or love...
Some of his aquatints of Hawaiian girls last week immediately reminded critics of Gauguin's sultry Tahiti wood carvings and oils. Unforced and simple, John Kelly's etchings proved him an able draughtsman. Hawaii visitors saw in his pictures a pleasing, accurate record of the island's scenery, water, natives and customs...
...Next day when the sea went down they salvaged most of their stores. Hall, tempted by Timoe's isolation to make a long-planned "experiment in solitude," thought of staying there six months, then thought better of it, went with the first boatload to Mangareva, thence home to Tahiti. His notes on Pitcairn Island, his shipwrecked volume of the Encyclopedia, went with...
...last months of the War as a prisoner. After the Armistice he collaborated with Nordhoff on a history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Both were tired of the U. S., went to look for peace & quiet in the South Seas, spent a year visiting various islands, finally decided on Tahiti, where they settled permanently, married native women. Since then they have had between them six children, a dozen books, four of them collaborations...