Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superlative son of Polynesian (leading money-winning sire of two-year-olds this season) is the second foal of Geisha (a fair-to-middling Vanderbilt mare by the great Discovery). "He doesn't have a nerve in his body, or a drop of temperament," according to Trainer Winfrey. This is one explanation of the Dancer's greatness. Another, Winfrey suspects, is inside the colt's deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer...
...undefeated, two-year-old Native Dancer, the $107,545 Belmont Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...
Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and, thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of re-education of its own (TIME, June...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and,thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of reeducation of its own (TIME, June...