Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented Spain's matador from Brooklyn, famed Sidney Franklin: "Maruja Fernandez never fights anything bigger than a two-year-old calf, and Heaven help her if she ever does...
...Japan proper the object of Fascist Matsuoka and his clique is to crush all political parties and usher in a "Showa Restoration" of imperialistic militarism sanctified by fanatical devotion to the Emperor as Son of Heaven (see below). Said the new President of S. M. R., who is expected to establish as soon as possible a Development Company for North China: "I have assumed the Presidency of the South Manchuria Railway with the firm determination to become active on the Asiatic mainland. Japan is going to start operations in North China. The arrow has left the bow! Most Japanese...
...TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair in which appeared a cartoon of His Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, the Son of Heaven...
...Japan the Son of Heaven, last of 124 rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared...
...national policy of Japan is clearly revealed in the divine message that the Sun Goddess gave her grandson, the first Emperor, on his advent in Japan: Japan is ruled by an unbroken line of emperors and the prosperity of the imperial line is coeval with heaven and earth...