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...Discreet Career Girl. O-Koi, second of the geishas, tailored her kimono-clad ambitions along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
...geisha had hitched her fortunes to a falling star. Though Japan won the war, the peace terms were unpopular, and the press reviled Katsura and his "concubine." With rioters in the streets, O-Koi had the presence of mind to tack a FOR RENT sign on her house, and hid out in a back room. The lovers were reunited before Katsura's death, and O-Koi later entered a Buddhist nunnery, where she died after the end of World...
...help. "As fire began to sweep the town" (one of the many to which Seagrave moved his base) "we returned to our operating tables. ... I simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along...
...While we were operating after the bombing-I had four operating tables going at once with nurses finishing the operations after I had done the most essential part, and Koi [one of the nurses] operating on her own-General Stilwell came in and watched us without our knowing he was there. As soon as he got to Maymyo he sent down the only U.S. Army medical man he had in Burma, a dentist named Captain (now Major) Donald M. O'Hara, and telegraphed Chungking to send down an abdominal surgeon trained at the Mayo Clinic, a Captain John Grindlay...
...Geki is far easier for Occidentals to understand than the hoary dramatic rituals of China, in which scarcely any scenery is employed and such an apparently unimportant factor as the shape of a false beard may indicate the character of its wearer. In Koi-No- Yozakura (Romance in Cherry Blossom Lane) a sculptor creates the image of a dancing girl which comes to life and dances with him when he places a mirror, the Japanese symbol of a woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery...