Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper and magazine reader, but on attaining the age of understanding definite needs and capacities, dropped all such reading matter, and now depend on TIME to keep me a citizen of the world. I also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...
Heavenly King.** Immediately after Yoshihito Tenno's death his eldest son Hirohito (since 1921 Prince Regent on account of his father's invalidism) assumed imperial rank in a room adjoining the death chamber. He will not be crowned until 1928, since the period of mourning in the Imperial Household will be protracted one year after the Tenno's death. None the less Hirohito Tenno received last week the Privy Seal and various imitations of the sacred symbols of his office?the sword, the mirror and the beads?the originals of these treasures reposing in various shrines throughout Japan...
...have just read with indignation your account of the will of a Canadian millionaire (TIME, Dec. 20) under which about $1,500,000 will go to the parents of the largest number of children born in Ontario between...
...Stars within 45 degrees on the north pole never set, so that they may be observed as continuously as the Sun permits. The position of the Earth is a good one except for for southern stars and for these one must go below the equator. It is on this account that for a long time northern one servatories have established more or less permanent branch stations in the Southern Hemisphere, and southern colonies and nations have established observatories of their own, or have encouraged their establishment by private institutions...
...Armored Cruiser Prince Potemkin. In search of Broadway favor came three foreign films last week: Faust (German), Michael Strogoff (French), Potemkin (Russian). Potemkin has been called the supreme achievement in cinema. The scenario follows the simple historical account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot...