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...week by the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...
Other contributors were Her Imperial Majesty Empress Nagako and Her Imperial Majesty Sadako, the Empress Dowager. Last year the Emperor created a sensation by mentioning "peace" in his poem. This year only the Empress Dowager used the word...
...stable of stately Daimlers used by Britain's King-Emperor was added last week a new car, prescribed by his physicians as a precaution against colds on State drives in England's damp winter weather. The new, maroon-bodied limousine has expansive glass windows, a glass roof panel, so that, whether the King's subjects are cheering from the curb or hanging out of windows, they can see him and his family...
Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough...
Last week baseball fans suddenly realized that the 71-year-old Emperor of the Yankee Empire was gravely ill. In their papers they read that Babe Ruth, long estranged from the colonel, had gone to his bedside for a touching reunion. Next morning death came to Jacob Ruppert...