Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting a cinema studio at Denham. England. ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia watched actors work on a new cinema called Peace In Our Time...
...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...
...Chinese the art of music is distinctly old stuff. In 2600 B. C., when the skin-clad savages of Europe were tootling shinbone flutes and walloping tomtoms, China's cultured Emperor Huang-ti established a standard scale for all China's musical instruments. When the T'ang Dynasty passed out in 907 A. D., Chinese music declined somewhat. But cultivated Chinese have always regarded music as one of China's most important arts...
...stock picture of the Japanese soldier in China is a uniformed fanatic who is taught from birth that dying for his Emperor automatically gives him a ticket into the Shinto heaven. At home, his relatives are pictured as accepting with happy little Japanese smiles the news of his death at the front...