Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule there will also be fewer "off-limits," signs which in the past had served chiefly to steer G.I.s to the more interesting hot spots. Said one G.I.: "If it weren't for the off-limits signs, we couldn't have found half the good geisha houses...
...language keeps confusing geisha houses with those of less decent repute...
...silken excitement, the geisha padded swiftly into the banquet hall of an exclusive Tokyo restaurant. Some bore samisens; others struck the classical attitudes of a geisha dance on the soft straw mats. Suddenly the samisens began beating it out eight to the bar and one of the girls let go a gully-low bellow that crackled the paper walls. The girls were doing the Samisen Boogie, a red-hot indication of what people meant last week when they said that Japan was jazzu-crazy...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
Young in Heart. In Tokyo, government ordinance was blamed by 8 2-year-old Kura Nagaoka for her retirement after 70 years as a practicing geisha...