Word: kikuko
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...chauffeur called for Yamashita promptly at 7:50 a.m. in an indigo Mercedes-Benz limousine. His wife Kikuko, 57, accompanied him outside his house and bowed farewell. Acknowledging this ritual with a nod, Yamashita climbed into the back seat. He greeted his driver by saying: "It's going to be another hectic...
...deeply troubled. The plot moves as imperceptibly as the earth. It concerns a year in the lives of the Ogata family, particularly Shingo, the head of the household. At 62, he feels old and vaguely discontented. The light in his life comes from his new daughter-in-law Kikuko, and he is constantly made despondent by the fact that her husband is already carrying on a public affair...
Life in Miniature. He is equally depressed when his daughter's marriage collapses and she comes home with her two irritating children. Shingo is obsessed with beauty, but both his wife and daughter are ugly. He is left with the gingko tree, the sunflowers and Kikuko for comfort...
...spokesman for polite Prince Takamatsu & Princess Kikuko of Japan, after their Imperial Highnesses had viewed Niagara Falls, said: "There was a feeling in the royal party that the illumination of the falls which we saw last evening was somewhat gaudy. We are much impressed by the sublimity of this waterfall, but to light it in striking colors is like gilding the lily." Unofficially the Princess said: "Why, this is not what I expected. I thought it would be greater...
Honeymooning Princess Kikuko of Japan asked Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson how long U. S. Prohibition would last. He referred her to President Herbert Clark Hoover...