Word: chrysanthemum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hattori sometimes writes his own lyrics, but often leaves the chore to others, who have that strange poetic touch which knocks the Japanese for a loop, but leaves a Westerner vaguely feeling as if someone has been beating him over the head with a chrysanthemum petal. The lyrics to Hattori's hit of the week, Aoi Sammyaku...
...army's Pacific salad days, while tears coursed from his eyes. A gnarled old woman stared fixedly, saying over & over in a choked voice, "li des-it is good." The react! ~n. had been the same in farming villages, coal mines, industrial areas-wherever the glossy, chrysanthemum-decked imperial train chugged...
...shaded by poplar trees. There at 9 o'clock every working morning, with a writing pad on her knees, she scribbles out her story. By noon, as much as 1,000 words are written and ready to be transcribed by a secretary. Then Mazo, accompanied by her poodle, Chrysanthemum, goes for a long-striding walk before lunch...
...Brussels and Louvain Universities, and at Louvain, twice destroyed by invading Germans, he saw students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...
...Colonel lunched with Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama and his Cabinet, and received a lapel pin-a silver chrysanthemum. He made Japanese front pages by saying (as Japanese jingoes had said before) that Japan was overpopulated, and that Australia was just the place to relieve the "pressure...