Word: toshiko
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...Japan's top actor chose him as leading lady. This honor earned him the right at last to use his family's famous stage name. He was at the height of his fame a decade later when he took up with the shapely, silk-skinned movie standin, Toshiko, and made her his mistress. Nizaemon's adoring public could bear up under that. But when the Great Lover married his hussy and began uxoriously washing diapers and doing kitchen chores to please her, his prestige began to wane. Only his relatives and most ardent disciples, paying their ritual...
...Washington, stocky Prince Tsunenori Kaya, first cousin of the Empress of Japan, and his tall, toothy wife, Princess Toshiko, last fortnight peered up at the Washington Monument. "How high is it?" asked the Prince. ''It is 555 ft. 5⅛ in.," replied his guide. "How easy to remember!" exclaimed the Princess. "Just half the Empire State Building." She was not quite right. The Empire State Building...
...decided that new and appropriate good deeds would be "comforting our brave soldiers in Manchuria." Seven socialite maidens were picked out of the 2,000,000 and solemnly blessed by a Shinto priest (see cut). Last week, the socialite Misses Tsuneyo Ishii, Fumiko Yamaguchi, Sakiko Yendo, Toshiko Odai. Masako Aoyagi and Chisato and Kijo Chiba were busy in Manchuria, comforting...