Word: tonga
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...banana knockers' in Eua, Nukualofa, Tonga Islands, only one is a Harvard 1912 man." Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...
...SCARLET MESSENGER-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Murder by knife, extortion by letter, intimidation by tonga bean bring Inspector Silver and Friend Collinson in & out of another mystery...
...usual there were some strange recipients of New Year's honors. Pipe Major John MacDonald was given the Order of the British Empire for his excellent bagpiping. Salote. Queen of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, was made a Dame Commander of the same order. Queen Salote is over six feet tall, broad in proportion and very fond of broiled fish...
...keep its 93-sec. engagement. The totality band of this year's eclipse spread across the southern Pacific from Australia to the tip of South America. On its way it crossed only two tiny points of land: Nurakita, an inaccessible island, and Niuafou in the Tonga group, home of 1,500 Polynesian natives. Because it stands so proudly high in a treacherous sea, ships can not approach Niuafou. Mail is sent to shore in tin cans. Hence the island is familiarly called Tin Can Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they had to dare a difficult...
...21?Total eclipse of the sun: at Niuaffoou ("Tin-Can") Island, Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean...