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Word: honda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Multiply the piety of an Irish policeman by ten, imagine him to be escorting the Supreme Pontiff cubed, and you have the state of mind of Police Sergeant Juei Honda when things went horribly, incredibly wrong last week in Kiryu, Japan's silk centre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God's Detour | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Heaven, the divine Emperor of Japan, was returning from Grand Army Maneuvers with Sergeant Honda out in front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God's Detour | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Step on the gas!" was Sergeant Honda's only thought in his panic. The Imperial motorcade got so far ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: God's Detour | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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