Word: chichibu
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...Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified U. S. customs men at Honolulu seized 77 boxes full of this Japanese classic aboard the crack liner Chichibu Maru, name-ship of Japan's Crown Prince...
...Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson all went there...
...white cloth in the centre of which they had drawn a circle. After a solemn soprano chant the maidens pricked their fingers deeply, held them over the circle until it grew red and the cloth became the flag of Japan. This flag the seven schoolgirls dispatched to Crown Prince Chichibu's crack 3rd Regiment which is part of the Imperial forces still holding Shanghai...
Because Emperor Hirohito saw from the first the basic unwisdom of Japan's Shanghai adventure, Crown Prince Chi-chibu (a daring skier and steady-nerved huntsman) is 'not and never has been with his regiment at Shanghai. The chief sacrifice which Crown Prince Chichibu is called upon to make derives from the fact that his brother, Emperor Hirohito, has no manchild. Until the Sublime Emperor has a son (he has had four daughters) Japanese etiquet demands that Crown Prince Chichibu have no child whatsoever. Four years ago he married merry Setsuko Matsudaira who was schooled in Washington...
Thus one day 150 subway employes dared to threaten the company with baseball bats. Shouldering these popular sporting weapons (even Crown Prince Chichibu plays baseball) they swaggered boldly into a subway train, shooed ouf the passengers, closed all the doors. Neither they nor the train would move, they announced, until the company gave them shorter hours, more...