Word: trunksful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or...
With the enthusiasm of kids opening a lemonade stand, the tennis firm of Pauline Betz & Sarah Palfrey Cooke went into business. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, had lined up 34 dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the...
Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time.
On a turf-covered plain near Delhi, a splendid assemblage gathered Jan. 1, 1877. The High Officers and Ruling Chiefs of India took their seats behind a gilt railing in an amphitheater of blue, white, gold and red, to hear Queen Victoria proclaimed first Empress of India. They rose to...
Before shapely seconds rushed up with the garment, she posed a few in a pair of fetching scarlet trunks, and played it safe when asked about who the man in her life was. She gave even the darkest horse a sporting chance, so as "not to hurt anyone's feelings...