Word: harems
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...takes Phyllis to Victor's villa on the Riviera (the "new" and most undesirable part); when she begins to bore him, he returns to London and gathers in his old love Sheila, the ward of a retired confidence man. Presently the harem is augmented by Helen, who plays the harp, laughs adoringly at herself, and is a little too coy for her age and looks. The women, naturally, do not get along at all well with each other; Max is first bored, then driven to despair. The weather is depressing; their landlord-neighbor turns out to fee a terrible...
...person not covered by beads, grass, buckskin or the negroid type of evening gown. She gets up at noon and eats two meals a day with lemons between meals for the sake of her throat. She was good in Tiger Rose, Lulu Belle, The Sun-Daughter, Kiki, The Harem, and Mima. This is her first picture...
...shot came from a window of the hotel's grand suite, occupied by its most prosperous and ugly customer. He and several of his concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part...
...secretary had been handling it. The secretary swore that this was true. A dozen of Chang's concubines confirmed the fine new story. Policemen scratched their heads. Finally, officials indicted Chang for murder, suspecting him of having suspected the Prince of fiddling about in his harem...
...notorious Dictator of Shantung province Chang Tsung-chang squeezed the wretched people by outrageous taxes, precipitated the present famine by seizing produce when they could not pay, and unquestionably took for his harem any women or children who kindled his desire...