Word: haru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haru was a farmer's daughter. She said things like "Hai-hai!" and "O-i!" and "Ma-a!" So did everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
Just the same, they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like...
Sued. Robert LeRoy ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, 38; by Marion Ohnick (Haru Onuki), U. S.-born Japanese opera singer; for $500,000. Charge: breach of promise to marry. Said Miss Onuki, "I love Bobbie as much ... as I did when I first promised to be his little Japanese sister." Cartoonist Ripley is currently seeking new incredible facts in Australasia...