Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...
John Buchan's ability to say the right thing reaches its flower in The People's King, the Jubilee history of George V's reign, which Houghton Mifflin will publish in the U. S. on May i. Of George V it says little: that he has a tenacious memory, is the first British King since Charles II to be a first-class practitioner of a field sport (shooting), that the British Government suppressed the fact that during the null horse reared and fell on him. Of the British institution of the Throne it says much: "A calm...
Just then a Lincoln town car sweeps up to the curb and out steps a merry old man with a flower in his button-hole...
...MORGAN AT L. I. HOME; HAS FLOWER SHOW GLOOMS
...Father Coughlin's investments in silver on behalf of his Radio League of the Little Flower while he was preaching remonetization, the General stormed: "When a priest vowed to poverty and preaching to the poor flays the faith of a people to advance a monetary interest- his own or another-you can about conclude that Judas Iscariot was just a poor piker...