Word: ise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mirror's home is a simple wooden temple expressive of primitive simplicity in the sacred groves of Ise, 18 miles from Tokyo. Strict ritualistic cleanliness decrees that every 20 years the mirror shrine must be destroyed, the sacred mirror moved to another shrine, an exact replica, beam for beam, bolt for bolt of the one vacated. Last week, the mirror moved...
...latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...
Then the news was spread that Dan Moody had failed to attain an absolute majority,* hence Mrs. Ferguson was not eliminated unless she desired to keep her prom ise. She decided not to do so, saying ambiguously "a challenge issued by Jim is not the acceptance of a challenge by Miriam." True, able politicians like onetime Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey considered the campaign closed, refused to have anything more to do with the Fergusons, and Texans generally were sated with Ku Klux Klan claptrap. What difference? Jim made a speech...