Word: kiki
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They knew her not as Alice, but more romantically as Kiki. Though she was flamboyantly real and fabulously full-blown, she was to most of the artists, revolutionaries, Babbitts, drunkards and dreamers more a symbol than a person. To the tortuous '20s in Paris, Kiki was what George du Maurier's lovely, fictional Trilby (whose tiny feet were called the most beautiful in the Quarter) had been to a former generation of Bohemians. Nobody ever looked at Kiki's feet...
Maxine did not mind so long as everybody looked nice, had some traces of manners, played games and were not "too tiresome" about Kiki. Kiki was Maxine's pet lemur which used to attack the guests, upset breakfast trays, invade beds, leave "traces of its passing wherever it chose...
...Chinese use four tones, the Bulus have five-two high, two low and one in the middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum are played in pitches and rhythms to match the language...
...Berlin, Kiki, 4, asked her artist-pacifist father what the word war meant. He told her, as horribly and gruesomely as he could. Said she, hopefully: "And can women play...
...politics), played golf at swank Hot Springs, Ark., ended around 1935. Dead was Gangster Vannie Higgins, who had owned and piloted his own airplane. Bootlegger Frankie Yale (Uale), bumped off, had been given a $50,000 funeral. Gunman Legs Diamond had at last been rubbed out, and his flowerlike Kiki Roberts, who had danced in Ziegfeld's Follies, had gone back to dancing in a roadhouse for a living. In 1935 organized crime appeared to have hit the skids...