Word: tahitian
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...Tahitian Idyl" by Gaugin, from the collection of A. Conger Goodyear, is the last of this year's series of One Picture Exhibitions circulated among colleges and universities by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the direction of the Museum's Extension Committee. It will remain at the Fogg Museum only from April...
...first officer, mutinied and abandoned Bligh and 18 of his supporters in a small boat equipped with oars and sail. Bligh and his companions won through to Kupang after 43 nightmarish days. Meantime the mutineers returned to Tahiti, whence nine of them set out again with a Tahitian princess for the first officer, eleven other native women and six native men. On Pitcairn Island, a tiny, wooded, steep, craggy scrap of land in the South Pacific, they beached and burned the Bounty, hoped they were safe from reprisal. They were not safe from one another. Unbridled drinking and mating, suicides...
...type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths and he was able to obtain vital statistics concerning newcomers who joined the colony late in its history. There is a preponderance of European inheritance over the Tahitian and more occidental features are discernible than those of the South Sea native, but in appearance the islanders range through all gradations between European and Tahitian. No pure types of either remain and the statistical chance of such a "throwback'' is extremely remote. Dr. Shapiro prepared hereditary charts...
Although the islanders read English, Dr. Shapiro found the spoken tongue a mixture of degenerate English, Tahitian, and Pitcairn-coined words. He heard children say, "see ahse 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...
...with finesse. There was no outburst by Premier Flandin against Emperor Power of Trinity. All the gory details were released, for their valuable effect in preparing the French mind for gory Italian work later in Abyssinia. Then French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin. who last month gave back to Tahitian girls their reputedly indecent pareus, announced that the massacring tribesmen were "nomads who have never been pacified," called Gobad an "occurrence incidental to colonial rule." To butchered young Administrator Bernard went, posthumously, by Premier Flandin's order, the tiny rosette of the Legion of Honor...