Word: geishas
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...that the men are back safe and sound, in the more or less morally scrutinous anvirons of Cambridge the stories are frying thick which tell of eastern nights made enchanting by "geisha girls" and Nipponese potions, which furnish ample apology for the discouraging exhibition of our National pastime, to the subjects of His Imperial Majesty...
...early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls at "The House of the Wind and the Moon," found pleasure in a "tropical romance" with a "faithful courtesan" in a genteel house of entertainment, piled up debts. He resisted efforts of lady matchmakers to marry him off to one of the local girls, but finally permitted his best...
...story-about a U. S. naval officer (Gary Grant) who light-heartedly marries a geisha girl, deserts her when she is with child, returns with his U. S. wife to pay a call when the geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...
...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...