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...Cab Calloway released “Minnie the Moocher”, about a rough, tough woman with a heart “as big as a whale”, which went on to sell a million copies; Bessie Smith sang unequivocally about sex in “Need a Little...
...White & Case has hired Will Smith as a partner in the firm’s global tax practice in London. Smith joins from Sidley Austin....
...Xu Xiaoying’s Minnie Vautrin, the headmistress of Ginling Women’s College, is haunted after being forced to send 100 students into sexual slavery in order to “guarantee the safety” of 10,000 other women....
...Counterpoint melodies, which the singer Mamie Smith called “hum and head arrangements”, are heard on Smith’s track “Crazy Blues” from 1920....
...Nicholas Smith, a strategist at CLSA, also notes that in Japan, labour participation rates for women rise during times of recession as they step in to supplement household income....
...The favoured motif of Minnie Mouse, Pierrot clowns, Ginger Rogers and amateur flamenco dancers everywhere, dots (not to be confused with spots, as in the sort most often seen on the skins of wild cats) are...
...Her “Goldrush Girl”, a simply stated story of emotional courage, illuminates the heroism of Minnie, the bar owner of La Fanciulla del West....
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