Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai! ("May you live 10,000 years...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
Quitting Geneva amid a few Japanese shouts of Banzai! ("May You Live 10,000 Years!") Japanese Chief Delegate Matsuoka sped by train to Paris, arrived there unable to make up his mind last week whether he ought to cross the Atlantic and "explain everything" to President Roosevelt or sail from Marseilles for Japan via the Suez Canal...
...robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Gathered around the furnace were Japan's leading pearl dealers. "Banzai!" they shouted. "May you live 10,000 years, oh Most Honorable Kokichi Mikimoto! Banzai! The price of pearls has risen!" The price had risen some 30%. the dealers agreed, all because Kokichi Mikimoto had shoveled 720,000 pearls into a furnace...