Word: hula
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Flowers were everywhere, even around the delegates' necks. The Royal Hawaiian Band played; a hula girl slithered. At week's end, 61 delegates-haoles (Caucasians), Hawaiians, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans-stepped up to sign Hawaii's new state constitution in Honolulu's Iolani Palace...
Clam Flats Hula...
Charlie Chaddigan went to France To teach the girls the hula-hula dance. Salute to the captain, bow to the queen, And touch the bottom of the sub-mo-rine...
...Hula-hula" is accompanied, up here on the clam flats, by a fetching contortion of undeveloped hips, with nary a skip missed...
Along with its hula dancers and splendid climate, Hawaii has its troubles. One of the worst is bugs. Latest undesirable to make good in the Islands is the Oriental fruit fly, an insect slightly smaller than a house fly and conspicuously marked by yellow stripes round its abdomen. It arrived during wartime, probably hitchhiking by aircraft or ship from Saipan, and spread like winged wildfire throughout the Islands, riddling all sorts of fruit and vegetables...