Word: chrysanthemumed
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...Japs were grateful to Wang. Last week the Japanese Government ordered a state funeral for him. Emperor Hirohito posthumously conferred on Wang the Collar of the Chrysanthemum, Japan's highest award to the head of a foreign state. Adolf Hitler, or someone acting for him, cabled condolences to Madame Wang...
When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...
Swede made for the cloud. The squadron followed him in attack formation. On the ships below little orange lights flickered at him like fireflies. He watched them become "strange black chrysanthemum-shaped puffs of smoke [which] began to walk toward him, each flower-like puff with large hurtling chunks of steel for petals...
Pyrethrum powder, a standard insecticide which is made from a certain chrysanthemum plant, used to be imported largely from Japan. In recent years coffeegrowers in Britain's Kenya Colony in Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...
Last week was chrysanthemum time in Japan. The islands were almost as lovely as in the cherry-blossom season. The annual chrysanthemum season, coincident with the anniversary of the late Emperor Meiji's birthday, was celebrated all over Japan with especial excitement: Emperor Hirohito chose it to mark the 2,600th Anniversary of the fair-weather day when Jimmu took on power...