Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jazz and Democracy. By last week the U.S. imprint was strong on Japan. Japanese girls strolled hand in hand with G.I.s beside the imperial moat. Children played with toy models of American "jeepu"; women copied U.S. fashions. In Tokyo a special school taught U.S. slang, and cinema fans queued up...
Chief among these undesirable elements: local "reactionaries" (e.g., Mihailovich in Adamic's native Yugoslavia) and representatives of Imperial Britain as in Greece). Adamic seemed to worry little about local Communists and representatives of Imperial U.S.S.R. His hope was that Britain-and the Soviet Union-would think it "wise" for...
Mr. Loeb "thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience" [TIME, July 1]. Why "little"? If it is any relation to the celebrated Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Mr. Loeb's bazink will be replete with inconveniences. . . .
The Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that...
Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes.