Word: bedight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a name that sounds like a sneeze, Hsieh Kai-shih (pronounced sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new 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...
...Depression reduced Sir John to advertising for sale last week Fritwell Manor in Oxfordshire, his rural pleasure palace for almost 20 years. Lady Simon still appears at social functions in latest Paris creations, bedight with diamonds & pearls. They keep their dignified town residence...
...first time the Lord Mayor of London flew somewhere last week, flew not only with his civic sword and his civic mace but medievally bedight in swishing robes, clanking gold chains of office and great plumed...
...that this was not the first Gandhi-George V meeting. In 1901 the Indian community of Durban, South Africa welcomed the then Duke & Duchess of York, now Their Majesties, with a reception at which Lawyer M. K. Gandhi made the principal address. In 1901 impotent Ad- dresser Gandhi was bedight in the latest British fashion. Last week potent St. Gandhi created a sensation by leaving the royal teaparty before no other guest. "Personally I have very little time for social functions," said he. "Both Their Majesties were charming. I also liked the Prince of Wales...
...whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...