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...natural, unfaltering study of sex as a cobra?a snake which fascinates and then devours the great white bull, in this case a strapping athlete. All the energy which he develops swinging an oar as a champion Yale rower seems to turn to passion at the swing of a skirt. A woman's eye can wilt him more easily than a burning...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...
...Russian fad, a trifle overdone, is fading. Where then can the producer turn? Possibly to Argentina, which is receiving inordinate publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue is rapidly approaching the end of the world. Without other worlds to conquer, Russia, Egypt and the influence of dusky Florence...
...well known yacht builder and partner in the Greenwich (Conn.) Yacht Yards. Wincapaw was piloting his flying boat in a pleasure trip over Lake George, with two passengers, a Miss Wilson of New York and a Mr. Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering...
Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...