Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...
...Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went cheers in which the Italian peasants were joined by a delegation of Japanese university students who shrilled: "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...
...Russian battleships, their formation broken, turn in desperate circles, watched four of them go down. Next day he got the cruisers. Against 10,000 casualties and practically the entire Russian fleet sunk, captured or beached, Togo lost three torpedo-boats, less than 1,000 killed and wounded. Banzai was the word for it. Togo lived a long time after that, but never so fully again. By the time of the World War he was no longer on the active list. His battered old Mikasa, laid up too, was made a national shrine. An unpretentious hero, as Chief of the General...
...Banzai Babe!" they cried. "May you live 10,000 years!" For the harassed U. S. Ambassador this was indeed a lucky break. Mr. Ruth is not merely touring Japan. With a troupe of American Leaguers led by Connie Mack he is barnstorming the Far East de luxe. Seventeen games will be played in Japan. It would be naive to suppose that Japanese baseball frenzy for baseball's Babe will sway public opinion, but last week it did ease tension. The Ginza broke out in a rash of Stars & Stripes. As they cheered Mr. Ruth and milled around him for autographs...