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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...
Greatest, perhaps, of tanka turners was Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769), who claimed to be descended from the divine Three-Legged Crow which guided the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu, in all his conquests. Crow Scion Mabuchi credited whatever evils befell Japan to her contact with "debased Chinese learning." His greatest pupil, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) wrote perhaps the most popular and typical of tankas...
...When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and hallooed away for centuries. It is nothing...
Georgia's little Bulldogs quit the gambling football they played against N. Y. U. and Alabama and went after Georgia Tech, cautiously, as though convinced that this was an important game. In the first period Waugh was hell, but after that the Yellow Jackets blocked one of Chandler's punts, hurried him on another, made him fumble a third, tied the score. Georgia picked up a blocked kick and an edge. Georgia 12. Georgia Tech...
...town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp. for distribution in Minnesota. Further, the Company announced that unfilled orders were...