Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese thinkers and philosophers, Dr. Hu Shih, Dean of the School of Literature at the National Peking University, was being feted last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the China Society of America and was toasting China's increased political unity, in Shanghai some courageous Chinese cabaret reveler was throwing a pear core at a marching Japanese bluejacket and thus offending the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This culminated a series of "incidents" during the past two months. When mysterious individuals in Chinese costume, possibly disguised Japanese agents provocateurs, then fired from ambush in Shanghai, killing...
...Dictator (TIME, Aug. 17). A second car brought King Edward VIII. Over cups of tea the two men talked earnestly for more than two hours. That night Edward and his pleasure-cruising friends were up until 3 a. m. dancing in a simple tavern and open-air cabaret, near Athens...
...world that is not open to him." So said comely, blue-eyed Zdenek Koubek last week, through an interpreter, as he sat cross-legged on the deck of the lie de France. Because of his curious medical history, he was journeying to Manhattan to appear in a cabaret. Born in Bohemia 23 years ago, the child was pronounced a girl, christened Zdenka Koubkova. She grew up as a sturdy, sport-loving maiden. She set Czechoslovak women's records in the broad jump, high jump, a half-dozen sprint and middle-distance runs; a women's world record...
...already attended the Derby, married an Irish airplane mechanic (Franchot Tone), seen him shot by a mysterious veiled lady (Benita Hume). Under the impression that she is a widow, she marries André Charville (Cary Grant), heir to a fine château, whom she meets in a cabaret. Charville turns out to be France's No. 1 ace. He is also a knave who breaks Suzy's heart with his philanderings. Who is the girl Suzy finds him kissing late one evening on a hospital bed? It is the same veiled lady who shot her first husband...
Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...