Word: kimono
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with important customers, then tuck turnips, garlic, apples, other staples under the ample gypsy blouse. Japan, adept at this gypsy technique, last week took advantage of France's and England's busy dickerings with Italy and Germany to slip seven small potatoes-the Spratly Islands-under her kimono...
...would love to work for you. I'm a singer as you've probably guessed already, but it's not my voice that puts over songs. It's my personality-with a big plus. I've real blonde hair, baby blue eyes, and stand five feet two in my kimono...
...Manhattan one day last week a 21-year-old cameraman named George Smooke focused his Contax at an apartment-house window, snapped a blurry but reproducible photograph of a shirtless man, a kimono-clad woman. The man was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, disbarred policy-racket lawyer, now under indictment along with Tammany-Leader James J. ("Jimmy") Hines, and incarcerated for five months in the Tombs. The woman was Dixie's doxie, a red-haired showgirl named Hope Dare, who was in hiding with him when he was arrested in Philadelphia late last winter...
...watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund of 3,466 yen ($1,008) in one day, printed the suggestion that an exact replica of the Panay be built for the U. S. At the U. S. Embassy a 30-year-old Japanese woman called in ceremonial kimono, whipped out a long pair of scissors, snipped off all her hair, wrapped it up with a gold & silver cord with a white carnation and handed it to the startled secretary of Ambassador Joseph Grew...
Liberal Without Sacrilege-Last spring came the moment for which old Saionji had been grooming his protege. The Cabinet of Premier General Senjuro Hayashi was forced out and thereupon the Last of the Genro produced from his ample kimono sleeve the "Liberal Prince" to be Premier (TIME, June...