Word: kimono
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after...
Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
...Mother Sousa. Though she lay in bed most of the time, garbed in a tattered blue kimono, Mrs. Sousa nourished a secret passion for efficiency. Incapable of keeping the house clean, she never failed to mark letters to local stores AIR MAIL. Her favorite recreation: brooding over her own canceled checks. Her conviction: that hired help led lives that "were pretty drab and needed brightening." So hired help always left the Sousa home stewed to the gills...
...Japs are probably laughing up their large kimono sleeves at the gullibility of the American press, which fell in line with this propaganda scheme by printing the catastrophe story as an item of fact," Leet asserted...
Then, to back up the designers, leading U.S. women were asked to make reassuring statements. Said Adela Rogers St. Johns: "The overdressed woman will be as unpatriotically conspicuous as though she wore a Japanese kimono." Cracked Irvin S. Cobb's daughter Elisabeth: "I'll cheerfully lose my skirt to keep our liberty...