Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder La and his friends, however, were beginning to take a lot more interest in the activities of the men in the green hatbands. As chief of the national police, Park II Woo had abolished Pyongyang's good Chinese restaurants and kesan (geisha) houses. As Minister of the Interior, he dealt with the city's private schools, factories and stores. He also found time to take note of some of Elder La's Christian colleagues...
...peaceful in Atami one afternoon last week. Visitors were pausing along the white Tokyo road notched in the pine-covered sea cliffs to take in the view. Aiko Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake merchant, and his son were filling bottles and stone jugs for delivery to the crowded inns. In a warehouse by the docks, Kazuyoshi Kitamura was pouring gasoline from a drum into a five-gallon can. Yoshio Suzuki lounged about, watching Kazuyoshi. Yoshio, a hulking youth, as slow-witted as Lennie in John...
Aiko Nagai, the plump geisha, poked hopefully among the ruins of her house. "All I saved was my samisen [three-stringed guitar]," she said, "but I'm going to entertain at a party tonight. Thank heaven, in our business we don't have to worry so much about equipment...