Word: kai
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Miss X., by wearing the most graceful Parisian costumes, and at this point her sage remarks on the frivolity of dress were both apt and original. In conclusion, she looked forward expectantly to the day when the fair sex should exclude men from every post of honor and responsibility. "Kai yap" (she went on), "are not wives gifted with an extraordinary faculty of extracting secrets from their husbands?" (At this point some gentleman in the audience murmured, as if in pain, "Alas! yes!") "Finally, let us look to the future for the consummation of all our hopes, but above...