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...Matsuoka arrived home from Geneva in a burst of glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that...
...China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating it and sipping it from tiny cups...
...Remembering this partiality of his. I think I shall send him a big cask of sake. The only drawback is that he must be more careful of his health. He has diabetes and alcohol is taboo. If his wife or secretary gets hold of the cask, the game's cooked...
...mile gale whipped the Empress, tossing up mighty waves that washed over her gunwales. The wallowing sent many of the retinue discreetly to their cabins, but Their Majesties proved fine sailors. In the teeth of the gale, they watched the battle cruiser Repulse pick up a cask of mail dropped from the Empress and turn about for home, the crew singing as a parting salute, a gale-borne toast, Here's Health Unto His Majesty...
...Reader Stockman is right. Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, first appeared in Godey's Lady's Book...