Word: lacquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moral purging also got under way on the Riviera, where strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...
...Kokonor Kid" has already been put to learning the mantras and tantras-Buddhist charms, incantations and prayers-which will fill his days as long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will...