Word: polynesian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read, of the Lampoon, was becomingly attired in a black net afternoon gown with a cream broadbrimmed creation by Bendel, while D. Stuart Friedkin of the CRIMSON salon was inexpressibly soigne in a Polynesian outfit complete with a gay print sarong. Stanley Brown and his Crimsonians played for dancing...
...clear-cut periods of alternate radicalism and conservatism. Between 1890 and 1912 a progressive Government passed graduated income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
...Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film, the impresario hit upon a great publicity stunt. Errol was called back to meet, fresh off an island steamer, a woolly young native in a seagoing cap and carrying a hand of bananas. To Errol this young Polynesian was introduced as Fletcher Christian of Pitcairn Island, a direct descendant of Mutineer Christian, and Flynn's blood cousin...
...Edna Christian, 43, widowed mother of Charles J. B. Christian, 6, who is a great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of H.M.S. Bounty's mutiny; to David Young, head of the present settlement of 204 persons on Pitcairn Island, where the eight rebellious English sailors, 18 Polynesian men & women landed in 1790; on Pitcairn...
Clark Gable is more virile than ever, seldom being hampered by clothes above the waist. He does much in this picture to justify his lionization and to make it permanent. As for the native Tahitians, men and women, they all demonstrate the beauty of the Polynesian physique, and, by their superb acting, the acuteness of the Polynesian intelligence. Some pungent contrasts between their savagery and our civilization are subtly brought forward by Frauchot Tone's study of their language...