Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hodo is "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" and War Minister Araki would put sword to his taut, flat stomach rather than doubt for a single instant the utter perfection of the "Son of Heaven," bespectacled Emperor Hirohito. Ergo the deeds of the Japanese Army, done exclusively in His Majesty's divine name, must be just, right and essentially merciful deeds...
...Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced to disgorge...
Horror-struck amid a ghastly red-&-yellow glare, more than 200 Frenchmen stood on seven fiercely burning decks in the English Channel last week. The biggest liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke. Asphyxiated a few minutes after he sent her first and only S. O. S., the Atlantique's chief radio operator lay slumped against his smoldering instrument table...
Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
...short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does a good best to prick this bubble. Some of the stories...