Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became known, New Yorkers began hunting other images in marble. The Evening Post announced it would investigate, photograph, report. In the new hotel Waldorf-Astoria was found a silly-looking moose and a little gnome with long beard and tall hat. In the Empire State Building are two cadaverous Geisha girls and a Tammany Tiger, upside down...
...Patrick Jay Hurley. With his beauteous blonde wife Ruth, he was traveling on the highest executive mission of his Cabinet career. When the Hurleys reached Tokyo. U. S. Ambassador Forbes entertained them Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite the season's worst typhoon, Secretary Hurley went ashore at the jetty, reviewed a battalion of U. S. Marines, got soaking wet. Under...
...plane was reported passing Yetorofu Island. Then rockets would be sent up to welcome the flyers into the harbor. Places were reserved for 3,000 school children to sing to them from Nemuro beach; a green arch had been erected for them to walk under. Nemuro's geisha girls were ready to dance in their honor and a Banzai band had rehearsed, for their amazement. "The Star Spangled Banner." Finally, the fog lifted and the Lindberghs took off from Petropavlovsk, a day behind schedule...
What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
...temple, cherry blossoms, a dancing geisha, a beautiful shrine, outriders heralding the Emperor's approach, all lost their beauty and romance through being viewed across a sea of dripping noses...