Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anacreon in heaven, where he sat in full glee...
Attended by his Grand Chamberlain and a suite of 200 nobles. His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, bespectacled Son of Heaven, presided augustly last week at the official tabulation of 34,769 poems entered by Japanese throughout the world in the Imperial New Year's Poetry Competition. The set theme for contestants this year was: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush...
...aristocratic Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, knelt on his editorial doorstep as the Pontiff departed. Much like the Christian Science Monitor in format is the papal paper except that it carries no advertisements or cooking recipes, displays the triple tiara of the Pope and his crossed keys to Earth and Heaven. Though crime news is excluded, sensations are not. Thus a recent headline in L'Osservatore reads: Un bambino investito da un autocarro ("A little boy attacked [i. e. bumped] by an automobile"). Significant details were given. The car was un piccolo (a little one), the baby was un povero...
...PENDING HEAVEN-William Gerhardi-Harper...
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN-A trapeze story that makes the grade...