Word: banzais
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...sent up to welcome the flyers into the harbor. Places were reserved for 3,000 school children to sing to them from Nemuro beach; a green arch had been erected for them to walk under. Nemuro's geisha girls were ready to dance in their honor and a Banzai band had rehearsed, for their amazement. "The Star Spangled Banner." Finally, the fog lifted and the Lindberghs took off from Petropavlovsk, a day behind schedule...
When the solitary "People" had replied with an address of eulogy and devotion, the immediate ceremony was at an end -except that three mighty shouts of "Banzai!" "May you rule forever !"† went up, not only from the assembled company in Kioto but from Japanese through out the world. This was possible because the original Kioto shout was timed to the second of 3 p. m., a momentous second announced throughout the world months previously...
...Literally banzai means no more and no less than "ten thousand years...
Thereafter Prince and Princess stepped from the holy quiet of the Kashikodo-koro, (where only the ancestors, the Emperor, and a few of the Imperial House may enter) into the sudden blazing sunshine of the city, Tokyo. A joyous roar of Banzai greeted them, for 60,000 persons had stood impatient in the heat, waiting to cheer...
...Banzai--John Paris--Boni, Liveright...