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Word: kira (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in more than 50 Parisian nightclubs, strippers with such names as Rita Cadillac and Kira Tekitoff were joyously peeling. Le cache-sexe, the French word for the irreducible garment - the G-string - was officially listed in the latest edition of the dictionary Larousse, and most importantly, scores of shopgirls and typists were powdering their delicate epidermises to take part in the first qualifying heat of the 1956 International Amateur Striptease Contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Le Striptease | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Dearborn Advice. Just before war came, Lulu married Grand Duchess Kira, one of the last of the Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Hohenzollern | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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