Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once one of Japan's most popular singers, came home from a Shanghai internment camp with a new repertoire that included Star Dust...
Later the eavesdropper took his story to a social club, a society of "wise elder" antimilitarist shopkeepers. They told a geisha girl, who told a Japanese employe of the Military Government, who told U.S. Army Lieut. Edward V. Neilsen; the laborer said he thought Jap officers had murdered his five or six companions because they "knew too much...
Discriminating geisha girls came near to swooning over him. Austere drama critics agreed that no Kabuki actor had mastered his art more perfectly. A great lover, onstage and off, lithe, handsome, 64-year-old Nizaemon Kataoka was Japan's Van Johnson, Alfred Lunt and John Barrymore rolled into...
...There is no objection to Rooney's wearing his Bronze Star, but I do claim that every fraternizing fraulein in Germany and every geisha girl in Japan should get the same award. After all, they entertained the troops...
Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...