Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manna will never fall from heaven each noon into the months of commuters, howsoever long and hard the powers may pray for it. Fortunately there is more hope that the lethargy of mental "sleeping sickness" will end, than if the "powers" really had endemic encephalitis...
...however, when enthroned with all the power and pomp and prestige that executive authority bestows. ... So effective became his onslaught . . . that I seized upon his perfidious conduct and held it up before high heaven to the scorn and contempt of all good men and women. . . . Beginning in his home town and county I denounced him throughout the entire State as the most conspicuously despicable personifications of ingratitude that ever clouded the horizion of Mississippi politics...
...News to millions of cinemaddicts is the fact that the political balance of Japan, hence the peace of the Orient, centres on 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Last of the Genro. It is this Elder Statesman who most often makes up the imperial mind of the Son of Heaven. Yet this potent old Japanese has been completely missed by U. S. newsreels. Therefore to the tiny fishing village of Okitsu went the newscameras of The March of Time, with the result that shots of Prince Saionji, guarded night & day by 40 soldiers, sitting on his flower-bordered porch reading...
...unwed mice and such philosophical creatures as Isaiah, the stoic horse of The Woodcutter's House. When he was not bringing wisdom out of the mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter...
...Suicide Point has come even the Son of Heaven, sublime Emperor Hirohito. who ably repressed any impulse he may have felt to jump. For the common run of modern maladjusted Japanese a leap into the volcano seems infinitely more attractive than to plunge a dagger into his vitals in the classic way. Last week the usual group of perhaps 150 sightseers were clustered fascinated on the brink, regaled by their guide with gruesome suicide stories, when abruptly things began to happen...