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...century had passed since the white men first sounded the warning. "This Pidgin nonsense," cried the globetrotting Baron von Hesse-Wartegg,-should be replaced "by a sensible German language." But in spite of the baron-and all the efforts of imperial German officials -the natives of the New Guinea protectorate went right on speaking Pidgin, the language built up from years of dealing with white traders. By World War II, G.I.s were being taught to say: "Cut-im grass belong head belong me" ("I want a haircut"), and the 23rd Psalm was still going native in a wide variety...
...Guinea and the Marianas, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The definitive U.S. naval history of World War II reaches Volume VIII, the decisive summer of 1944, and the campaigns which brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Japan (TIME, June...
...Guinea and the Marianas, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The definitive U.S. naval history of World War II reaches the summer of 1944 and the campaigns which brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Japan (TIME, June...
Noah's Basement. In Canandaigua, N.Y., after neighbors complained that Mrs. Coddie Hunt's pets were making too much noise, she revealed that she had in her cellar three dogs, 34 cats, a dozen roosters and guinea hens, and two calves...
...Guinea and the Marianas, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The definitive U.S. naval history of World War II reaches Volume VIII, the decisive summer of 1944, and the campaigns which brought the Pacific War to the doorstep of Japan (TIME, June...