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...Tokyo a publishing association planned to print 50,000 English dictionaries for the schools, and civic leaders were promoting a loo-million-yen ($650,-500) amusement center for U.S. troops. It would provide billiards, rifle shooting, golf, tennis, fried fish, sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peacetime Living | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...friend . . . of ours got into a great deal of trouble several years back when he decided to pass up an opportunity to go to Yale and instead entered a certain educational institution in the home of the bean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 8/2/1945 | See Source »

...Costa Rica depends on coffee, calls the local coffee bean the "grain of gold." There is reason for this eulogy: the Costa Rican bean assays at 86% liquid coffee-making essence, as compared to the Brazilian bean's 29%. Costa Rica's politics revolve around coffee; the coastal banana has only secondary political influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Happy Land | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Last Saturday's liberty found many Chase luminaries out basking in the fresh air and smoke light of the Stagier's dance. To mention a few, "Robel" Smith, string bean drawl expert, Bill Shuey, and Kirby "Sour" Pickie were in attendance. Tom Wilcox musta used his Virginia drawl to influence roommates Wood, of Florida, and Woodin, who once spent week ends in Iowa, into the Bradford College affair. A word to the wise all agree that Bradford is fairly loaded with prospective...talent...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

...creeping tarantula, going from country to country, spreading poison." The Gestapo once arrested him as a British spy. As he gained experience, he was sent to Moscow for six months, then south to cover the Allied push up the Continent. His top stories in the past year have bean interviews with Tito and Mikhailovich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: UpCy | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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