Word: jongg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is considerable confusion as to just who this reseal is Miss O'Hara, who answers, to the title of Princess Mah Jongg, has her sights set on the wrong fellow (Paul Christian) for some time while palling around with the pasha and military governor of Bagdad (Vincent Price). When the Black Robe boss turns out to be somebody else (John Sutton), Christian gets the Princess and Sutton and Price get theirs...
Nights Are for Sleeping. At 16, Shirley May France is too young to remember the 1920s, but she was making U.S. oldsters remember mah-jongg and miniature golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year...
...popularity in St. Joseph (Mo.) Central High School. He was too selfconscious, too meticulously dressed, too fussily precise in his speech. His sophomore classmates thought of him simply as a grind with honor grades and a grind's liking for music, books and such unfashionable pastimes as mah-jongg...
...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
...Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...