Word: mah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
...prohibited. Geisha girls cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...
...First step in the program was a streamlined assistant secretary, blonde and blue-eyed Miss Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
...occasional meal, to browse in the largest collection of current magazines in New England, and to buy "Harvard Faculty Special Cigars" (15c a piece or 2 for 25c.) The Tomb of King Tut atmosphere is gone, and the chatter of false uppers is echoed by the clatter of mah jong tiles upstairs. There is activity at the Faculty Club-it has really become a social center for the Harvard professors and their families. For the first time since the University faculty began rivaling the French foreign legion in size and diversity, their club is performing its intended function...
...Columbia, S. C., a Negro shoplifter was arrested, unpocketed two hair brushes five watches, a bottle of perfume, eight cigars, then offered: "If you all will turn me loose I'll sho' help you find de man dat put 'em in mah pocket...