Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a boom as even the U. S. cannot remember. With thousands of overnight millionaires, a self-congratulatory middle-class with money and power was suddenly thrown among the feudal remnants of pre-War Japan. Its members invested in stucco villas and saxophones, art works and sex novels, phonographs, geisha girls and the best Scotch whiskey and earned the contemptuous nickname of nankin (chess pawns promoted by crossing the board). The fantasy lasted until 1923 when a 52 billion yen earthquake jolted Japan and proved a forerunner of Depression. Even today most moneyed Japanese are regarded by the Army...
...less than 25 numbers. Beatrice Lillie appears in about one out of every three. If the measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...
...father, a manual laborer, became missing. Her mother had to care for eight children as a girl laborer. The strain was too great for her. The eldest daughter had to be sent to Tochigi Prefecture as a woman of ill fame. She had to become a geisha last year and in May last spring she had to serve on a 4-year contract for a loan on 1,500 yen. At that time only 1 yen remained in her mother's hands...
Greatest foe of profiteering President Hayashi is quiet, persuasive Mrs. Nobuko Jo, whose profession is to induce Japanese women to endure the perplexities of womanhood. Claiming to have prevented over 2,500 suicides, Mrs. Jo is busy today with the acute problem of Lesbian suicides. Starting among Geisha girls, this perversion has now spread to Japanese schoolgirls...
About all the Japanese that the players could assimiliate was "Ikuradesuke?" Meaning in plain English "How much?"...Another word which often came in handy when the allowances were at the breaking point was "Mo-sukoshi." All of which is more significant as "a little more"...If the morals of geisha girls left much to be desired they were certainly compensated for by the taxi regulations. It seems that there is an unfortunate taboo on escorting ladies home in taxis after midnight. So the procedure was to send the poor girls home alone...At least the taxi fares were reasonable...