Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many weeks owners of genteel geisha houses in the vicinity of Tokyo have suffered robberies. Cash boxes were rifled, many of the young ladies' valuables were stolen. The geisha houses complained bitterly...
...houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls and amuse himself in his spare time...
...Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...
...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...